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GEORGE WASHINGTON 
CHAMPION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 

Not less than seven cities ontside the United States of 
America have erected public statues to honor the mem¬ 
ory of George Washington: Paris, Versailles, Buda-Pesth, 
Buenos Aires, Caracas, Uondon and the City of Mexico. 












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Alton ISjouse ^ouiles, M. A. 

Author of “Shakespeare Studies” 


“King of Kings and Lord of Lords” —Rev. 19:16 
“Conquering and to Conquer” - Rev. 6: 2 




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TABLE OF CONTENTS 


Prologue 



Page 

IX 

Chapter 

I. 

Creation’s Source and Support. 

1 

Chapter 

II. 

Father of Lights. 

10 

Chapter 

III. 

The Organism of Deity. 

19 

Chapter 

IV. 

Amidst Debasing Activities of Ambitious 
Autocracy. 

The Junkers’ War Plot. 

24 

Chapter 

V. 

As Over-lord of Warring Humanity. 

Is God Self-limited in Power? 

39 

Chapter 

VI. 

By Ideals of World-wide Righteousness. 
How to Foster Universal Peace. 

50 

Chapter 

VII. 

By Virtue of His Laws and His Love. 
Harmony with God Assures Peace. 

60 

Chapter VIII. 

Testimony of the Evolving Ages. 

Three Times has God stepped upon the 
Shores of Earth. 

71 

Chapter 

IX. 

Mighty Terminations of the Universe in 
Christ. 



1. The Spiritual or Individual Coming. 

2. Christ’s Parousia or Presence. 

3. Scenae de Fine Mortali. 80 

Chapter X. Epilogue. 97 

Supplementary Note: Who or What Is God? 102 

General Index 106 


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 


George Washington, Champion of Human Rights, Frontispiece 


Le Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Gray Man of Prayer. XII 

The Washington Memorial at Valley Forge . 17 

Liberty for All Humanity, Freedom thru Truth . 56 

A Peace Statue, “The Christ of the Andes” . 70 

Orbits of Comet and the Planets, God’s Majesty . 81 







DEDICATION 

This Little Volume is conscientiously devoted to the 
reign of Eternal Righteousness throughout 
the Universe of GOD 





MAN'S QUERY 

Have you faced the Universe? 

It’s problems, forces, wonders, 

The form of things, their substance, 

“lights and shades, 

Changes, surprises,—and God made it all? 

—What for? what’s it all about?’’ 

They who trust the Conquering Master agree, 
Creation’s no failure, it means intensely, 

And it works towards final good. 

—Adapted 


GOD'S AIM 

The final goal of the Universe is 
Harmony with God 


PROLOGUE. 


The Great War brought to light some curious propaganda and 
strange philosophy concerning God. Pastor Koehler of Berlin 
who collected in digest about eight hundred war sermons in the 
“Religions-geschichtiche Volks-B richer” stated the duty of 
Germany’s pulpits—“We must that is our vocation —defend God 
against the world” The world knows how these pastors defended 
their tribal war God. 

Shall the ETERNAL be rediscovered? Says one—“According 
to Mr. H. G. Wells, God Himself is to be reconstructed,” but 
*Hibbert’s Journal finds Mr. Wells “unsound in history” and 
“philosophically all astray in the account of his ‘God, the Invisible 
King’.” Has Mr. William Archer in his followup volume, 
“God and Mr. Wells” bettered the conception of Deity? And 
one Dr. Sellers thru his book entitled, f“The Next Step in 
Religion” proposes to abolish God as limited in power and re¬ 
linquishing entirely theology and supernaturalism, he would 
substitute the ethics of humanistic values derived from the true, 
the good, the beautiful. We are led to inquire whence except 
from Divine character emanated these ideals of long ago? Earth 
lately experiencd in war, the evils of man’s standards of value. 
Another in our own country, Mr. Reeman in a clever little 
book, strives to answer the question of his title, “Do we Need 
a New Idea of God?”f Speaking of the war, he says (pp. 24, 
25, and 26) “Do you mean to tell me that there is a God who could 
end it all to-morrow if He wished, but that He won’t? I cannot 
believe it, and if I could I do not think I should have much use 
for such a God anyhow?” In concluding this reasoning, he writes, 
“namely that God is actually now doing the best He can and 
can’t do better and that in all the struggle His interests are as 
much at stake as humanity’s. I believe that if God could end 
such things as the horror of war and destroy the world’s evil 
to-morrow He would, and that the simple reason why He doesn’t 


* Hibbert’s Journal, Book review, July, 1917 , and elsewhere, 
t By R. W. Sellars, Macmillan Co., N. Y. 

$ By E. H. Reeman, Jacobs & Co., Phila. 






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is that He can’t. I can see nothing else to believe and still keep 
my sanity and rationality. Can you?” Is Divine power to be 
questioned? The Universe—(R. Eng. Bible) “The heavens 
are the Lord’s heavens and the earth hath He given to the children 
of men.” When and in what manner should God interfere with 
the activities of men in their abode? Does He control by physical 
omnipotence or thru laws, spiritual as well as natural? Why 
should we expect the intervention of the Holy Being in the 
midst of the greater iniquities of mankind? Does He interfere 
with the smaller crimes; has man real freedom of will? Must 
the God of the whole universe of worlds summarily correct and 
restrain the spoiled children of little earth? God is not a human 
king,—a throned monarch somewhere behind the unseen veil; 
He is not known and realized by those with the deaf ears of 
selfish ambitions, but the Great Spiritual “I AM”, ever active, is 
speaking in myriads of ways to the leaders of His cooperative 
civilization and His still small voice is heard and He is felt in the 
daily experience of many an humble mortal who recognizes God 
to be the Sustainer and mighty Master of All. 

It is small wonder however, that in the stress of the world’s 
strife, which finally entangled twenty eight nations and destroyed 
by methods of organized warfare more than ten millions of lives 
and maimed another twenty millions of men,* some doubted the 
existence or the knowledge of Deity, and many distressed hearts 
cried out, “What has become of God?” “Where and how can 
we find Him?” “Has God any interest in earth’s civilization?” 
“Will the prayers of faith be answered?” “What is the sphere 
of Divine providence?” “What, about the sovereign power of 
God?” In the time of anguish, the carping voice of the critic, 
the cavil of the cynic, the darkened view of the pessimist, even 
the glowing enthusiasm of the optimist, affords slight relief: 
most persons prefer to face the facts with the determination of 
the ameliorist who will work to better the situation and who 
will seek immediately to diagnose the condition of mankind. 
May not a vision of the ultimate goal of humanity bring some 


* While the estimate is quite unanimous that ten million men 
were slain, authorities differ as to other figures of the World 
War, e. g. former War Secretary Baker stated that twenty six 
nations were engaged. Naval Secretary Daniels said that twenty 
million men were wounded and twenty eight nations were in¬ 
volved. Others estimated that thirty nations were at war. 



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XI 


comfort? Shall we rest until we investigate all that can be 
learned of the Supreme Being? 

Greater than settled systems of human thought is the earnest 
search of these times for God and the truth about Him. Tho 
faith holds much that is well established, other ideas concerning 
ultimate reality, like the challenge of the changing universe 
and problems of science are in flux and so open to unfolding de¬ 
velopment. The most acute question of the man on the street 
is as to the nature of Divine Sovereignty. How does philosophy 
as well as religion meet the modern crisis? The science of the 
search for hidden meaning is quite worth while tho we may not 
solve the “riddle of the universe”. It is desirable to understand 
anew as far as possible the relationship of God to the mighty 
cosmogony and whether harmony shall issue eventually for human 
spirits at the end of life’s day, provided man shall cooperate with 
the Supreme Creative Ruler. Individuals like nations have be¬ 
come the noblest in history, who have sought and sustained the 
highest conceptions of God. He who commands the respect of men 
has learned to reverence God. He who habitually worships the 
Master, is mighty; he experiences “the glory that cometh from 
the only GOD.” 

For more than three quarters of an hour, in the wayside chapel 
of a small village, a California soldier boy of the American 
Expeditionary Force abroad, furtively watched the worship of 
a French soldier clad in the dingy uniform of rank but accom¬ 
panied only by a single attendant. To the lad from the Golden 
State, the bended knees and the wrestling prayer of the aged 
Frenchman seemed almost pathetic. The three soldiers were 
alone near the altar in the darkened chapel, while “the gray man 
of Christ” persistently besought the blessing of the God of the 
universe. Great indeed, was the surprise of the American to 
discover later that the gray man of prayer was none other than 
Le Marechal Ferdinand Foch* the supreme commander of the 
Allied Armies in the Great War. Thus devoutly, General Foch 
worships God daily; some think his religion delayed his mili- 


* To an interviewer, Gen. Foch said: “In a supreme moment, 
clear vision is sometimes given to a man, impelling him to adopt 
certain measures of enormous importance. In the formidable 
war, I believe I had such visions, in the battle at the Marne, on 
the Yser and on March 26, ’18. . . . The victorious decision came 
from the Supreme Divine Will.” Echo de Paris, Jan. 1 , 1920 . 







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PROLOGUE 


tary promotion before the War. However, who shall say that 
the God of All, by the waft of the Spirit has not wisely guided 
and strengthened the stern French strategist? Editor 
Wheeler,* writing from the scene, in “The Tears of Rheims” 
gives a bright glimpse of the soul of France and of the undaunted 
courage of her hero commanders with their inspirational leader¬ 
ship. Strangely enough, the French point out that in the war- 
demolished chapels and cathedrals, the statues of Jeanne D’Arcf 
remained unscathed, for their faith in the Maid of Orleans ap¬ 
proaches superstition; let us hope they apprehend the Supreme 
Power behind all. Why did General von Kluck strengthen his 
right wing, leaving weak or withdrawing the center of his army 
thru which Gen. Foch made his drive at the first battle of the 
Marne? The French people hold the romantic view of religious 
faith that Gen. von Kluck and his staff had a vision of an im¬ 
mense army there before the German right flank, to oppose 
which, he formed his concentration. A cool fighting French 
officer voiced in Paris this inspiring belief of the devout French 
people—“Some folks say that when the life and soul of France 
hung in the balance and when there seemed to be no way that 
human endurance could stay the German flood, Jeanne D’Arc 
gathered a celestial host, and that it was this which the Germans 
saw for a little while, that the heart of France might go on 
beating.” In peculiar corroboration the ex-crown prince at¬ 
tributes the defeat to “a case of nerves” on the part of the 
German general staff. But, theological science would say more 
prosaically that when man was failing physically, GOD inter¬ 
vened spiritually to confound the invader’s tactics of battle, so 
that von Kluck erred by his weakened center while Foch 
strengthened spiritually in his need, made the marvelous drive 
of his army thru the German center to victory. “Do you believe 
this?” We answer as the Paris officer did very gravely: “yes.” 

After the second Marne, witticism serenely inquired; “Has 
Germany received full indemnity from France by the two checks 
on the bank of the Marne” while to the absconding Kaiser of 
“meinself und Gott” fame, the humorous Belgians near the 
Holland border flung the taunt; “Are you on your way to Paris 
or to London?” 


* By permission of Everybody’s Magazine. Copyrighted, 
Aug. 1918. (Adapted and quoted suggestively), 
f Jeanne Dare was the real name of the heroine maid. 




EE MARECHAL FERDINAND FOCH 
The Gray Man of Prayer 


















PROLOGUE 


XIII 


As a reassuring reminiscence of the old Germany, we recall 
that Martin Luther, to whom God was a mighty fortress, said 
to his colaborers at Wittenberg: “Do not be overzealous about 
my teachings, I will preach about them, I will talk them, I will 
write them, but I will not use force or compulsion with any one.” 
To his friend, Elector Frederick, Luther once wrote: “No sword 
can help this cause of mine, God alone can help without any 
human cooperation.” . . . “For Christ hath not taught me to be 
Christian to the injury of others.” No such exalted ideal was 
fostered by the Kultur of modern Germany; shocking indeed, by 
contrast to Luther was the pastors’ and professors’ war outcry* 
Germany’s downfall in morals (the real one) was made apparent. 
Her nobility in ideals of truth and righteousness must be re¬ 
covered; selfish materialism is to be overcome. 

The spread of Pluralism thru England places emphasis on the 
multiplicity of striving existences. But the “multiverse still makes 
the universe.” Clear eyed faith sees the unifying path for the 
Many unto the One. This ONE with the Many struggling upward 
should be regarded as the Eternal Creative Spirit rather than a 
“finite God” of experience. To material monism, extreme spiritual 
monism may well be compared closely; may the resultant be 
corrected for nearer truth? Realism finds much acceptance. Ex¬ 
tremes in philosophy are to be sedulously avoided. As to ma- 
teralism, may it not be as erroneous to insist on physical experi¬ 
ences in terms of spirit only , as to try to derive all mind and spirit 
from some refined material substance? Believing in Divine im¬ 
manence, can we explain God by saying: “energy is God’s mind 
and ether is His body?” Nevertheless, we need have no fear of 
a deepening spiritual experience. It teaches that God’s will is 
exerted in human affairs; that just as the great commander leads 
his army, God directs mankind “thru the curtain of fire” to destroy 
evil for the general good; that in the long run of providence the 
righteousness of heaven prevails; that in spite of the free play of 
all life, God takes care that human society shall not retrograde 
and that He is revealed to men only partly, but shall be realized 
yet further, gradually and progressively. 

Of old, one name of the Lord was Adonai which meant Master. 

Professor Albert Einstein did not endorse Germany’s war 

P °‘‘The Nobel physics prize for 1921 has been awarded Dr. Ein¬ 
stein.” N. Y. Times, November 1922. 





XIV 


PROLOGUE 


When the Hebrews felt that the four charactered name of GOD 
(Y-h-w-h, The Tetragrammaton) was too sacred to utter, they 
read aloud Master (Adonaz or e) hence its vowels a-o-e were 
put to The Tetragrammaton in the Massoritic text which made 
the name of God Y<zh(6>)weh. Sometimes to avoid repetition, 
the vowel points of the Godhead (elohim) were used which gave 
Yehowih, but only the four consonants (Heb. Yhwh) are certainly 
known to represent the “Ineffable Being”. From these and the 
pointings, the Divine name has been anglicized into Jehovah. 
The Godhead remaineth much in obscurity. The Divine Spirit 
(Heb. ruah, Elohim or qadesh, also Gk. pneuma and Paracletos) 
who is the hovering, striving, inbreathing, heartening Eternal 
One is often like the wind, hidden and unperceived in His 
workings. “No man hath seen God at any time” but Christ 
the Master, hath spoken unto us and declared Him, that man may 
be delivered from the sin of his apostasy. The Lord or Jehovah 
(Yahweh) is little by little disclosed thru the earliest documents 
collected by Moses, while the faithful Abra ham correctly inter¬ 
preted according to the promise is seen to be the father of the 
many blessed peoples of all nations. 

The same Lord of the promise, having risen, met two of His 
followers, and “beginning with Moses and all the prophets ex¬ 
pounded” unto the Emmaus travellers (Cleopas and another), 
“in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.” They 
who know the man Jesus of history, may go on to find the 
Conquering Master. Looking backward, the so-called Theoph- 
anies of the Old Covenant and the appearances of the Angel of 
Jehovah become bright foreshadowings of that larger revelation 
of the evolving ages in Christ. Tho great empires have withered 
away, the Plebrew race which is the witness to the Eternal Son 
and the founder of spiritual ideals has survived. Deity is pro- 
gessively unfolded “by the process of the suns” science teaches 
and religion acquiesces. The expansion of the God idea thru 
the increasing world periods concerns all the race. Shall we 
learn that the dire need of the world is not more Human-o-cracy 
and Church-ian-ity but the ride of God in the souls of mankind? 

The cooperating universe itself is one means of coming to 
know God better. To this end, our conscientious endeavor is 
exerted, not only to magnify the Lord, but also thru His broader 
universe to catch some further glory and to realize the power of 
the GOD above All. It has been the author’s ambition to set 


PROLOGUE 


XV 


forth an outline of religious philosophy which should be true in 
basic principles and by which faith may build and reverence may 
continue to find additional incentives for worship. 

At the time-honored seat of the Smiley peace conferences—- 
Lake Mohonk, in the rugged Shawangunk mountains, the guide 
directs the visitor how to climb up and rise higher thru the 
“Great Crevice” two hundred feet above the crystal waters of the 
lake to the wooded knoll, called Sky Top, whence on a bright 
day, land in six states, can be distinguished. From this pinnacle 
of . physical vision, the far off Green mountains, Keystone’s 
nearer ranges, the Berkshire hills, the highlands of Connecticut, 
parts of the Garden state, also the Palisades and Catskills of the 
Hudson region are clearly discerned. So to reach the loftier 
spiritual outlook, to bring within range even the halos of Divine 
majesty, to espy the lineaments of the God of love and peace 
above the human gore, the noise and smoke of earth’s conflicts 
and the wreck of nature, we must mount upward, we must expand 
the vision, we must vastly enlarge the view from this little world. 
For comfort, we take short views of life; for the soul, we should 
take encompassing views, yes, we should seek ennobled and ex¬ 
tending observations of the God of all creation: it is ours to wor¬ 
ship the Almighty whose we are and whom we may serve. May 
we try to ascend to the mount of glorious vision, to come into 
harmony with the Great Harpist in the clear atmosphere of eternal 
joy on high, to know our Father, “God over All, Blessed forever ” 



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Special Notice to Readers 

Chapters II., IV., VI. and VII. with Epilogue may be read 
as descriptive and historical, without reference to Scripture 
interpretations or the philosophical outline of the thought. 





The Conquering Horseman 


CHAPTER I. 

CREATION’S SOURCE AND SUPPORT. 

With the people of every age, the earnest inquiry has been, 
“Is there a God?” “How can His presence be realized in the 
universe?” “Does He manifest Himself aside from revelation?” 
To question an answer to the mystery of some ordinary facts 
may be suggestive. Whence is matter or energy? How is cosmos 
evolved from chaos? Who gives the light to sun and stars? How is 
nature’s uniformity maintained? What shall be said of light, ra¬ 
dium and electricity. Whence came life? Wherefore is death? And 
whither goes the spirit? Is there a mighty Controller of reality 
back of such problems? Faith demands the highest certainty. 

Mystery is all around us. Every fundamental fact is a mys¬ 
tery. Explanation cannot dispel the obscurity, for its solution 
surpasses experimental knowledge. All men admit with the 
assurance of general observation, two facts of common experience, 
—the personal consciousness of soul life within, and the 
wonderful face of nature without. From whence do these facts 
arise and how can they be accounted for? Is the realm of 
mystery ruled by a personal power? 

Said the sceptic, *David Hume to Adam Ferguson, as they 
walked afield one starry night,—“Adam, there is a God.” 

Of the personal presence of God, assurance comes by self-reali¬ 
zation. The naturalist Darwin confessed that the question whether 
there is a Creator and Ruler of the universe, has been answered in 
the affirmative by the highest intellects that have ever lived. Not 
only is atheism bad logic, but “There is no God” is indeed the 
proper saying for the fool. The agnostic, whether of the un¬ 
knowable or the unknown, poses as a spiritual ignoramus; if he 

* Hume’s sceptical “Dialogues” were published, by direction of 
his will, posthumously in 1779, and answered in part by Immanuel 
Kant. 





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fails to recognize God, he becomes practically an atheist. Cer¬ 
tain self-styled atheists refer in their writings to “a fine intellectual 
spirit pervading the universe” to “a fortuitous concurrence of 
elements and events”, to “an irresistible belief in an absolute 
being.” What better evidence could be adduced undesignedly 
to the presence in the universe of that Eternal Majesty whom 
we usually call God. 

Robert Browning affirmed that the literary line which expressed 
his deepest conviction was— 

“He at least believed in soul, and was very sure of God.” 

The accurate philosopher concedes that there can be little of 
positive demonstration backward to original sources. The late 
Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson), declared before the British 
Association, “There is nothing in science that reaches the origin 
of anything at all.” More recently, Sir Oliver *Lodge has af¬ 
firmed “Ultimate origins are inscrutable.” The Eternal Master 
is needed as the source and support of all creation. And tho 
exact logic may not be able ultimately to prove His existence 
and being, man can know God by rational inference and spiritual 
insight. Even the capacity of thought conception cannot be made 
the measure of possible existence; that being would cease to be 
God who could be entirely comprehended by human thought; we 
can know assuredly that there is a GOD, without knowing what 
He is in completeness. 

Science does well to push back as far as possible the Supreme 
Cause of creation, by introducing the various subordinate causes; 
but instead of “ The One Great Eternal Underlying Cause” los¬ 
ing thereby, it rather increases in significance. Right thinking 
demands a “Great First Cause” of nature. There must be a 
“Supreme Reason” to account for the causes induced by the 
human reason. Indeed any objector has need to show cause 
why there is No Original Cause or Sufficient Reason. This uni¬ 
verse is being thought thru by a mentality superior to human 
mind, otherwise there would be nothing for the mind of man to 
discover beyond itself. The Higher Mind designs the phenominal 
relationship of creation’s facts. Therefore, the postulate of God, 
present, immanent and transcendent, best satisfies the necessity 
of practical thinking which really requires the GOD l^phothesis 
to explain human experiences. God is “That living Will that 


* Lodge’s Science and Immortality, pp. 26, 27. 



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shall endure, When all that seems shall suffer shock.” The 
Divine will, constitutes the laws of the universe. 

Behind the phenomena * of creation, there is evidence of wise 
intention. Physical law is not cause but method (modus 
operandi); it indicates a governing intelligence. The processes 
of nature at work are observed, described, classified and named. 
Law thus framed, is a necessary order but accounts for nothing 
radically. It sets forth the operations of nature according to 
an orderly course of procedure. It may show second causes, 
but it is not ultimate in its conclusions. There are substantial 
proofs of design from above. 

Emerson, tells how Sojourner Truth rebuked a railing politician 
at an Abolition meeting in Boston. As soon as the speaker sat 
down, the tall and aged black woman arose and said, with bony 
finger uplifted towards him: “Honey, I could tell you something, 
but (tapping her forehead very significantly) I see you ain’t 
got nothing to carry it home in.” Is it possible that some are 
blinded and cannot see God in His world and His uniformity of 
works? Does anything in the universe lie outside the sphere of 
Divine presence? In modern science, the Electron Theory of 
matter and Einstein’s Principles of Relativity alike point to 
a Potent Power steadily at work. 

To a French atheist is attributed the remark: “I have searched 
the heavens with my telescope and I have found no God.” In¬ 
nocently exclaimed a pupil at school: “Indeed, and what did he 
expect to find? Do not the discoveries of science reveal the 
purposes of a Higher Being?” When Kepler finally verified his 
laws of planetary motion, he exclaimed “Oh, God, I think Thy 
thoughts after Thee”. A manifestation of the Supreme Ruler 
is readily apparent to the unprejudiced thinker, in the uniform 
method, rational order, purposed plan, and ultimate end of 
creation. Where law reigns, there God is. Natural law has its 
source in the bosom of the Creator. 

Harmonious design rationally implies a Being who thinks 
thru His universe. Divine intelligence purposes the vast order 
of so-called laws beneficently; the disordersf of the world, like 

* Nature is the deliverance of sense-awareness. Distinguish 
phenomenon, the noumenon or Kant’s Ding an sich. Vide, Ous- 
pensky’s Tertium Organum. 

t Attributed to evil spirits, Job 1:12, 16, 19 also 27, rather to 
God, 2:10 and Isa. 45:7. Shall we assign physical disasters to 
God but moral evils to man? 





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storms and earthquakes, may be merely incidental,—only back¬ 
ward movements of the piston of nature’s enginery; perhaps really 
they are means of progress in the accomplishment of the great 
unexposed ends of God. The human mind cannot now realize the 
far-reaching plan of eternity; man can see only a very small seg¬ 
ment of the vast circle, so comprehensive to Divine view. Nature 
with its law, order, and progress is known to humanity in part. 
Tho more be discovered, we shall here, only ‘know in part’. God 
is the breathing spirit of His creation. God is the life force of all 
things both the seen and the unseen of His universe. He is in the 
whole animate and inanimate world, yet rather the universe exists 
in His immensity of life. However, nature is, in a sense, but the 
handwriting of God; it is really as much the body, the garment or 
Divine concealment as it is a method of His manifestation. Nature 
by no means is God. It manifests His greatness, for by His power 
it must continue to exist. We may “look thru nature up to 
nature’s God, who is creatively active everywhere. 

The astronomer, sweeping the sky with his glass, beholds God 
in centrifugal and gravitational energy; the botanist sees God in 
the root, leaves and petals of the blooming plant. The biologist, 
parting the soft feathers, opening the delicate framework of the 
heaving breast of the tiny bird, shows in the awesome moments 
of an impressive hour, the life of the Eternal, throbbing quietly 
in the heart of the humming bird. 

His might is felt in every tempest. He dwells unseen behind 
the darkly swelling storm clouds. His messenger is the swift 
lightning; the thunder is an echo of His voice; the tidal wave, 
the raging ocean, the jarring earthquake and the belching 
volcano, reveal God’s presence. In the beauty of sky and land¬ 
scape, in the sublimity of mountain and cataract, in the adapta¬ 
tion of the animal to his environment, from earth’s smallest flora 
with midget blossoms, by the mighty trees of the forest, thru 
passions of the human heart, in love’s ineffable tenderness, in the 
vague anguish of the soul’s longings, in the pains and sorrows of 
death, may be read and known the reigning power of Divine im¬ 
manence. 

Can the theory of Evolution waive the claim of an immanent 
creative God? 

“A fire mist and a planet, 

A crystal and a cell: 


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i 

A jelly fish and a saurian 

And caves where the cavemen dwell; 

Then a sense of law and beauty, 

And a face turned from the clod— 

Some call it Evolution, 

And others call it God.” 

By Evolution, the upward urge of all life is stressed—emphasis 
rests upon growth. Evolution announces the theory of Creation 
by gradualism. But who is the source in the slow program of 
development? Nothing can be e-volved that is not somehow 
in-volved. Who in-rolls the active germs for this growth process 
of un-rolling? Who properly conditions the E-volution? If life 
sprang from protoplasm, whence came the protoplasm? WHO 
in-volved LIFE there? 

Nature discloses to science perfectly arranged adaptations in 
numberless variety, as among the more evident, air-locomotion 
for the winged family, waters for the finny tribe, and grades of 
soil and climate for diverse plants. Whence came these fitting 
relationships? In all adaptive relations, meaning resides for 
man’s discovery. And who puts such meaning there? Were 
not Deity above the human mind, from whence could higher 
meaning come? The stores of knowledge classified in science, 
as well as the general phenomena of daily observation, suggest 
two minds,—one, the Supreme Mind that weaves ideas into the 
web of existence, and another, the human mind that reads, collates 
and arranges the thoughts so expressed. There cannot be thought 
in the world’s creation without an original thinker. This thinker 
must be a person superior to his works. This person, we name 
God, who is the All-Father. This universal Father is the One 
Great Eternal Sustaining Cause. He is the deepest and the 
highest power of the universe; He is above and thru all things, 
and is creation’s transcendent God. 

“King Eternal! Thou without bound or place— 

Infinite Ruler both in time and space! 

Supreme and undying—first and last— 

Immortal Soul of future, present, past! 

Unmeasured Source! Vast and unfathomed Mind! 

Unknown to man, nor by Thyself defined! 

***** 

Heart of each breast, Cause thru whom all exist— 




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Will by whose force, nature and flesh subsist! 

Mighty in Powers of which Thou art the Whole, 

Deep as the space of which Thou art the Soul! 

Creating Spirit, from whom all descend, 

Upon whose being, transient things depend! 

Mind above minds! Soul of each carnal clod! 

Immanent, Transcendent, Everpresent GOD!” 

We may well pause in the face of the mysterious beginnings 
evident in all animate creation. Tho man is a spiritual be¬ 
ing at the head of nature, he did not create life nor the con¬ 
ditions of earth that first produced the trees of the forest and 
the beasts of the field. Man himself is a child of the dust, but 
in his life forces he is the offspring of Deity; he comes from the 
Supra-natural Being. *The will of God surely started existence 
here. The Highest Life gave life, for only life can produce life— 
fthe chasm remains unbridged between matter and life. The 
possibility of spontaneous generation is denied by scientific in¬ 
vestigators. Neither can man maintain nature’s life beyond its 
assigned limits. Nothing but the replenishing force of the 
Supreme Life can continue to revivify and to preserve thru 
second causes, physical existence to its allotted periods. The 
Divine support in natural causation, is as much a mystery as 
creation. Is the universe an unfinished product? 

Moses turned aside at the mount Horeb to wonder, and at length 
to worship, before the presence of God in the bush that burned 
with fire and was not consumed. To thoughtful minds, daily, 
nature in its usual functions, displays the miraculous activity 
of spending itself without loss; so every living thing betrays the 
maintenance of an energizing Power that is working continuously. 
The atoms, said to be teeming with electrons, and the infinitesmal 
molecules of matter, though constantly consumed in work, are 
never lost: nature’s incessant demands do not destroy them; 
frequent and many are their transformations, but they do service 
from year to year apparently unrenewed. Is the source of 
supply within the flying electrons of the atoms themselves? 


* What as to an unloving and “merciless nature God?” Vide— 
(Burroughs’) “Accepting the Universe”, Houghton Mifflin Co. 

f “Whereas, in the case of life, no instance can be shown in 
nature of the production of the living from the non-living, and 
the problem has hitherto baffled the experimenter, p 96, “Idea of 
God”. Pringle-Pattison. Oxford Press. 



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\\ hence are they? Who properly conditions their powers and 
production? The simplest solution is that they are phases of 
that Highest Being who knows no rest from His perpetual care. 

He that keepeth thee. . . *will neither slumber nor sleep”. 
If the Almighty could fall asleep, who would awaken Him? The 
clock of the universe would run down; time would be wiped out 
and the measure of eternity would be no more; gravitation would 
cease to act; matter would lose its substance and inertia; the sun 
and stars would forsake their circling courses; the earth and 
sky would vanish away; space would become blank and void; 
life and energy would be snuffed out as a candle; mind and spirit 
would also slumber; and GOD Himself if He ever awoke, would 
not know how long He had slept. 

Whence comes radio activity and light radiation? Clearly there 
is a fSPACE Time Power which persists. 

* American Standard Bible. The “will” of determination. 

t Space and time for observer Ptolemy on the earth is no 
reference system for Copernicus at the sun; each has differing 
experiences. To one the earth’s orbit is a stationary circle, to 
the other, it appears as a moving ellipse. Relativity by Einstein 
expands the Copernican idea. Painleve of Paris formulates like 
results tho adhering to absolute space and time. 

Space and time naturally retain for us the unlimited mean¬ 
ing beyond the new relative sense of “Space-time in continuum” 
as used by Dr. Albert Einstein with the fourth dimension as one 
phase of his Relativity Principles (restricted and general), Rela¬ 
tive space is extension measurable and time is kept by the clock 
of each observer in his system. Space is said to be “curved and 
warped”. Newton’s idea of “gravitation is held unsound”. Gravi¬ 
ty is a distortional property of space-time. Proofs of the devia¬ 
tion of light rays in a wide gravitational field are accepted: “this,” 
said Sir J. J. Thomson, Pres’t of the British Royal Society, ‘is 
the most important result obtained in connection.with gravita¬ 

tion since Newton’s day.“ Light appears to have inertia and 
weight, indeed structure and like electricity exerts energy. The 
ether theory gives place to the “general substratum of things” 
and the Quantum Theory which involves radiation by electronic 
ENERGY. Further, all motion is relative. Einstein’s scaler 
(same as Prof. Lorentz’s electron contraction formula) is, for 
stationary clock and observer, a ratio of restricted Relativity: 

J 1 Z! n f nvp sprnnd a f time i V is velocit y °f the bod y>' 

\ 1 C 2 01 0ne secona °J nme \ Cis speed of light in vacuo. 

Contraction is an appearance, from Relativity’s standpoint 

Contraction appears, from Relativity in view point. 

Briefly, Relativity states : 

ist.—Restricted principle; no proof of the uniform motion of 
bodies thru the ether can be detected. (Not a reference—frame.) 









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Progressive movement is the law of the cosmos. Something 
other than the Newtonian attraction sustains the universe or 
ages ago the heavenly bodies would have rushed into confused 
masses aimlessly roving space. The earth itself, according to 
astronomer Flammarion, is subject to some fourteen perturbations 
and motions. Does not a governor of speed and motion main¬ 
tain the balance among the elements and make even the mathe¬ 
matics of Relativity appliable? fWHO is the “Eternal Not Our¬ 
selves.” What is the general dynamic that energizes nature? 
What is That Which is mightier than force, more than breath, 
greater than life and above brain functions? Where is the ocean 
source of the stream of consciousness? Must we not answer potent 
and pervasive Spirit swerves the helm of the heavens? This In¬ 
visible Spirit is “l’elan vital” of Henri Bergson plus super-per¬ 
sonality. Yea, here is none other than the free Spirit of Deity 
ever paramount in the universe. Out from the unseen spiritual, we 
came and thitherward to the Eternal Father of Spirits, we ad¬ 
vance; not as toward a “divine circle” of in-drawing perfection but 
rather (in mathematical terminology) as unto an out-reaching 


2nd.—General principle; a gravitational field of force is exactly 
equivalent to an artificial field of force (magnetic, electrical or 
centrifugal) so that in a limited area, it is impossible to distinguish 
between them. 

Einstein’s Relativity erects an imaginary fabric above the ma¬ 
terial universe known as “Space-time in continuum” with a frame 
of reference for four coordinates (x, y, z, and t)—the three dimen¬ 
sions of space and a fourth=Time for each observer in his system. 
It is unnecessary to visualize the time dimension (t). This is 
mathematically assumed as a fourth relation in space from which 
it is almost inseparable. Divine intuition is myriad dimensional 
in range. Any atom, electron or event is located by the x, y, z and 
t of its system which may then be compared by its observer with 
others in systems which move uniformly. Time must be registered 
by a clock in each observer’s reference system. Recorded mo¬ 
tion and time may be converted to use for the stationary observer 
and his clock by the reduction scaler aforesaid. In electro¬ 
magnetism by similar expression, is computed the apparent con- 
tracton of electrons in the direction of their motion. The world¬ 
line of an atom in “space-time continuum” is a “geodesic” (curve). 
The point at intersection of world-lines gives position by a mesh 
system and higher geometry; instant gives time before or after. 
The mystery of the Power-Providing-Presence surpasses the 
riddle of Relativity. (Vide Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Me¬ 
thuen 6 ed., formulas pp. 118, 125, 131) also (Carmichael’s Theory 
of Relativity, Wiley, 2 ed., formulas and results pp. 98, 103, 105). 

f Vide supplementary note, Who or What is God. 



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conjugate hyperbola of Deity. If we do not understand God, is it 
not “because of our spiritual inferiority”? 

“God of our fathers, Thou who wast, 

Art, and shalt be, when the eye-wise who flout 

Thy secret presence, shall be lost 

In the great light that dazzles them to doubt: 

We who believe flife’s bases rest 
Beyond the probe of chemic test, 

Still like our fathers, feel Thee near.”— TowEEE. 

God is spiritually present; in respect to His essence, He is 
immanent; in reference to deity, He is transcendent. In His 
nature, God incorporates the finite with its evil and imperfection; 
in the emergence of His deity, does He not surpass relative good 
and evil, by assimilating value, not only conserved but ever 
augmented unto infinite perfection? 

In each successive moment then, all creation’s substance is 
apparently maintained by a power not in itself. Thru animate 
nature too, the steady workings of a subjective life element may 
well be conjectured. Divine sovereignty assumes ffaith in GOD’S 
continual sustaining activity. Light energy seemingly reveals 
the “upholding of all things by the word of His power”, and that 
“in Him all things (hold together) consist.” The summation of 
this world-widening vision thus reassures us that GOD is present 
in and beyond all nature, and that thruout His universe, in the 
“law of preservation”, we must recognize the unvarying support of 
the eternal FATHER. 


* In a reported lecture at Victoria Institute, the late Dr. L. S. 
Beale said, “That the distinction between every kind of life and 
every kind of non-life was absolute, and that there was no 
evidence in support of the view that any kind of life had proceeded 
or had in any way been obtained from non-life. Rather does life 
seem to be a power which I venture to think will ere long be 
regarded as allied to, if not to be actually included in, the spiritual 
order of things.” 

f Of the little girl who defined faith as believing in things 
that you know are not so, Dr. Lyman Abbott says: “She only 
misplaced the ‘not’—Faith is believing things that you do not 
know are so.” 



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CHAPTER II. 

RATHER OS' TIGHTS 

Upon the rocky promentories along the sandy sea coast among 
fishermen’s villages of Scotland, famous alike in song and in 
story, *one has quaintly pictured the mad wanderings and almost 
spiritual quest of an elfish creature—a hump-backed “Laird 
Stewart” who in his daft career continually scanned the face of 
nature and anxiously besought in childlike entreaty—“Where did 
I come from? I know not where I am going to? Will I ever 
know where I came from? O Lord, take the Devil off from my 
poor back; have him take the hump with him. I have no favor 
for it.” 

Ofttimes, his pleadings much resembled the distressed Job of 
old,—“Oh that 1 knew where I might find him, that I might 
come even to his seat. . . . Behold, I go forward, but he is not 
there; and backward, but 1 cannot perceive him: on the left 
hand when he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he turneth 
himself to the right hand that I cannot see him.” So the “wild 
laird” would cry out suppliantly, like a scared animal, moving 
his head from side to side as he looked at the stars of heaven 
or gazed away over the expanse of sea. “Almighty, come out. 
Father of Lights! Father of Lights!” Maniac or not,—the 
mood of the dwarf was supremely sane, not to say sacred. For, 
on a sabbath, at the time of sacrament in the village church, 
the “poor laird” had heard the minister—“the bonny man”, read 
from the big book,—“Every good gift and every perfect boon 
is from above, coming down from the “Father of lights, with 
whom can be no variation neither shadow that is cast by 
turning”. 

The apostle James thus declares, in his letter, perhaps the 
earliest of the New Testament writings, that God, the Father is 
the author from above, of all good and in the presence of evil 
is unvarying in character. God is constant in His essence and 
immutable in His attributes; however, He is not immobile or 


* Substantially as gathered from the Scotch in “Malcolm” by 
George Macdonald. 



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unyielding in His attitude towards importunate mankind. Fur¬ 
ther, the same writer asserts of prayer to God,—“The supplication 
of a righteous man availeth much in its working.” With Divine 
answer to prayer, the argument will deal more fully later. In 
advance, it may be remarked that God ever willeth to grant His 
benefits to receptive humanity. 

To-day, people are wishing to be shown that God is manlike 
in His person and nature; some go to the extreme of making Him 
“finite” in experience, but the Eternal of the great universe 
cannot be confined to earthly conditions alone. “The Veiled 
Being” of intersteller space is needed as much as the “young 
courageous leader”, so let us exploit no half truths tho they 
seem true because new. From the psychology of man’s person¬ 
ality, we may affirm with confidence that along with many other 
attributes, God, in His person, is Divine or Eternal Knowledge, 
Out-reaching Feelings and Sovereign Will, except as these are 
self-conditioned intentionally; also that Divine presence may be 
felt in far-sweep, like the personal magnetism in lesser degree, 
of the human orator. Have you been touched by the fire of 
eloquence in the vast assemblage? So, may your heart within 
burn, when the Lord of the Spirit is communing directly with 
you. 

The sympathy of the All-Father is as broad as the universe. 
The Silent Companion, without the devices of men (like tele¬ 
phone, wireless, periscope or telescope) yet thru some Spiritual 
waft, vibrations, or waves unseen, is in constant touch with 
His most distant realms. Similarly He is with each soul and 
every creature of earth. If God feels the pains of His creatures, 
pities the dying sparrow and hears the groans of sin cursed 
nature, shall He not grieve more at the cries of suffering human¬ 
ity? The agonies of this earth break beneath His feet like the 
foaming spray of ocean at the base of rocky shores. He sees, 
He feels, He knows the murderous struggles of men in this 
greedy world. 

“Think not that we can sigh a sigh, 

And our Maker is not by, 

* * * * 

Till our grief is fled and gone 

HE doth sit by us and moan.” 


—Blake. 


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The Master’s love adapts itself to every changing need of men 
or creation. At the tomb of His friend Lazarus, Jesus wept. 
The Divine Son, in tender mercy, restored some to life and re¬ 
lieved the ailments of many others. In His compassion, Christ 
fed hungry multitudes; in forgiveness, He prayed for His per¬ 
secutors; in His love, from the cross on Calvary, He commended 
His mother Mary to the home care of the Apostle John. In the 
days of His pilgrimage over her mountains, He lamented the un¬ 
feeling scorn of Jerusalem while foretelling the city’s destruction. 
Yet He was not always touched with melancholy, He could 
brighten the joys of wedding feast by His cheerful presence and 
opportune aid. The historic Jesus unveiled to humanity,—the 
loving kindness—the out-reaching feelings of the Father and 
gave the Spirit to abide unto the end—the sympathetic partner 
to each trustful and receptive soul which thus becomes “as one 
whom his mother comforteth.” 

From whence shall we gain the best acquaintance with the 
Eternal Father? While truth is welcomed from any source, chief 
reliance is placed upon the Biblical History of Redemption, 
facts of science, reasonable theories of philosophy, the face of 
nature and the testimonies of consciousness. We should listen 
within for the message of universal truth. Beyond the ex¬ 
perience of consciousness, the sacred literature of Christianity 
in the light of its origin is the surest guide; indeed all facts 
ought to be examined without prejudice. This History of Re¬ 
demption is a PROGRESSIVE Revelation; it was providentially 
preserved and collected from the writings of some fifty different 
authors during a period of about fifteen hundred years but 
conveys the inspiration of One MASTER Mind who promulgated 
its principles as the guide to moral conduct and for mankind’s 
spiritual development. The Bible testifies of itself that it is 
“like a lamp shining in a dark place until the day dawn, and the 
day star arise in your hearts,” further that the Scriptures are not 
of ‘private interpretation’ as God by the event gives the meaning. 
“For no prophecy ever came by the will of man; but men 
spake from God.” Such sources cannot be ignored even tho 
the existence of God could be proved without revelation. The 
spirit of axiomatic truth and conscience, inwardly knows with 
another. Does the voice of GOD resound in the citadel of 
self—the soul? Is conscience an eye of the soul? 

In the castle of consciousness, self (the Ego) meets the 


THE CONQUERING HORSEMAN 


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Creator. The Ego knows with that other, namely GOD. The 
spirit (Hyso^a) of man which is in him, can know the Spirit 
of God — his Maker. The pneumatic man uses the capacities 
of reason, conscience and free choice. The heart and consci¬ 
ence bear witness to the truth. Popularly speaking consci¬ 
ence including reason can be educated; more exactly it is 
reason which is either darkened or enlightened by instruction. 
Conscience is self-acting in the realm of morals. Like the mag¬ 
netic needle it always points right. Conscience is life’s compass 
which would steer the soul aright. It reads reason’s law and 
makes its appeal to the better self. The Father of Spirits speaks 
thru conscience. 

The spirit of life is the breath of the Almighty and to Him it 
shall return. The marvelous functions of the human spirit 
must be admitted as God given. Man both dreams and designs; 
his mind has its subjective and objective side. Foremost and 
above bodily functions is the spiritual mind which beholds, 
imagines, and deduces thought; it can live apart from matter. In 
life, the mortal mind knows, plans and reasons actively. Man 
is capable of God consciousness as well as self-consciousness. 
When the body turns to dust—heart, brain and all transmissive 
machinery disappearing—the conscious stream of self -flows on 
into eternity, back to Him who sent it forth. Like the silver 
stream of the valley is the silent stream of man’s consciousness 
which seeks its ocean source in the spirit life of God. 

* * * * * 

If the moral law is written on the heart, if the rule of right 
and wrong is intuitively known to the soul, if the law higher than 
any written constitution gives in advance, conviction of duty and 
indicates the after penalty for wrongdoing, then moral authority 
without force of compulsion is present, inwardly speaking, en¬ 
couraging, inviting decision as to action, but leaving the subject 
free to obey or not. Divine presence is felt in the soul; God has 
set the conditions which persuade consent; life’s training in 
principles is progressing; the drill practice of conduct is on; 
character is being formed for eternity. Herein man’s conscious 
experience testifies to the watch care of the Father of Lights. 
Does not the Holy Spirit working subjectively in the universe 
give the “light of life” physically as well as spiritually? If 
life reproduces itself according to its own energy under law, is 


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not this gift—“life, the light of men” from above? What saith 
biogenesis? 

An eloquent minister lectured learnedly to an audience of the 
masses on the “existence of God”. At the close of the address, 
a good woman congratulated the speaker on his eloquence, but 
remarked innocently, “in spite of your argument, sir, I still be¬ 
lieve in God.” A philanthropist sent out a questionnaire, con¬ 
taining the following inquiry: “What would happen, if I could 
prove for a certainty that there is no God?” One person replied 
emphatically, “My dear sir, it would not make any difference 
what you proved, I know God” So perhaps the world of people 
to-day may claim that they know God and are not interested in 
proofs. Happy are they if they follow His lights unerringly. Is 
it difficult to be convinced that the greatest need of the world 
now as ever is GOD—that men come to realize Him by doing 
His will, and that the most fruitful search for the great Master 
is a searching of the heart? 

Divine knowledge carries forward universal ends for the seen 
and the unseen alike. Studies in science and the Bible indicate 
a world-end that is called a plan in creation and also inquire 
what is the ultimate goal of the whole coordinating cosmos. 
The ascent of man is seen to be God’s world-aim. According 
to what appears to be the Divine purpose, the best plan pos¬ 
sible, involved incidentally sin and the evils which environ man’s 
free choice. So redemption from sin is provided; the more 
abundant life is offered thru mercy extended; soul growth is 
afforded; heroism is encouraged and the sufferings of man¬ 
kind are consoled. God thus reveals Himself, and man is en¬ 
listed in an upward probative struggle. Man is assigned the 
widest liberty for experience, consistent with Divine government. 
Milton in his great epic, puts illustration of this liberty into the 
mouth of Jehovah, who says of humankind, 

“So without least impulse or shadow of fate, 

Or aught by me immutably foreseen, 

They trespass.” 

Sin is a missing of the mark of God’s will. Any personal being 
who acts as not intended, sins. Man is allowed his choice of evil; 
thus he becomes the occasion of most of the miseries and mis¬ 
direction of humanity. Sin makes a cross (man’s will across 
God’s will) for the sinner himself, disorders for God and often 


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evils for the world. In spite of these, the eternal purpose 
has a forward movement mysterious in its operations “which 
things, angels desire to look into.” 

To the Father, all mysteries of the universe lie open; at His 
glance is the boundless panoramic view of the whole creation; 
to Him there is no past and no future, but one unending NOW 
of experience and activity. His is a living force, tireless in 
mental zest and limitless in His sweep. He is the dynamic 
center of outflowing floods of light ,—the exhaustless fountain of 
energizing thought. Divine aim is not stagnated by a finished 
program but His purpose runneth on like the rushing currents 
of ocean’s waters. 

Men of aggressive wills, resisting the impulsions of God, often 
fail to act nobly or live justly. Selfish ambitions and mixed 
motives led astray into extravagant enterprises. The WILL to 
WIN may promote false standards of righteousness; men thrust 
aside their fellows as if they would encompass earth and heaven. 
Besides other intelligences may be at work in the universe with 
or against God. Earth is but a pin point of the systems in 
space; it’s a grain of sand on the boundless shores of eternity. 
“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he shall in¬ 
struct him? But (says the Apostle) we have the mind of 
Christ.” We know that freedom of will is for right use and not 
abuse, man is to work together with God to maintain law and 
order. However, an evil course of action may seriously balk the 
wheels of civilization. We have seen the wrench tossed reck¬ 
lessly into the machinery and grinding sand dropped into the 
bearings; providence has seemed to be temporarily thwarted. 
In earthly affairs much motion appeared to be lost. Yet at such 
crisis, eternity recognizes no stoppage. The world’s troubles 
are slowly set right. GOD is quietly active by using other men 
as His providential agents for good. The Eternal calmly waits 
till these “creatures of a day” fall to nothingness in evil. The 
path of righteousness leads uphill and zigzag all the way to the 
top and the days of the ascent are not numbered. LOVE can 
suffer long and be kind; the principle of conquest is Love. 

Is the Master’s Will “the power outside ourselves that makes 
for righteousness”? As there is a Sympathy more far-reaching 
than man’s and a Knowledge broader than human, so there is 
a Will mightier than other wills and grander too, because its aim 
is holiness. The activity of the Godhead is an unsleeping ur- 


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gency unto goodness, an ever-onward-sweeping enthusiasm of 
heaven born souls for right and truth. God exerts the eternal 
will with men’s, to overcome evil. Such enriched wills are instru¬ 
ments for carrying out the Divine purpose. Nations ennobled 
by just principles are agents to promote civilization’s progress 
in the world. Should the blue of visible space be conceived as 
a mighty sea of placid waters, if this glassy surface was disturbed 
by splashing pebbles and plunging stones thru wills free to impel 
their circling wave-ripples in all directions, then should the rock 
of ages—the Supreme Will,—smite often the central surface 
waters starting the great everwidening circle of flood tides—en¬ 
larging tides of coalescing goodness over that universal sea, the 
Master’s swelling floods would sweep steadily on, to efface wave 
after wave, the ripples of evil, till that tidal flood Divine dashed 
triumphantly on the shores of eternity; the waves of sin over¬ 
borne by floods of goodness. To the accomplishment of His 
ends, God’s will moves forward majestically. 

“On the far reefs, the breakers recoil in shattered foam 
While the rough sea below them urges its forces home; 
What tho wrong’s oft repeated, 

And wide the wastes of sin; 

The waves fall back defeated, 

Yet God’s tide is sure to win.” —Adapted 

Divine law and order is the everlasting process of government; 
in the seen universe, we find adaptation, uniformity, cause and 
effect, biogenesis, continuity, and conservation of energy; all, 
without, irregularity, are pliant to the heavenly touch. By new 
combinations, varied relationships, physical and spiritual, not 
suspending law but employing it, God occasions unforeseen 
changes in events. So the Living God can bend Himself and 
make His works flexible to the entreaties of Christward prayer. 
God does respond to answer prayers; He grants man’s reasonable 
petitions. Without variableness, pleadings unto righteousness are 
heeded. The history of nations as much as individuals gives 
evidence of Divine alteration in the course of events. God ex¬ 
tends aid to holy ends. 

The eight years Revolutionary War of America’s United 
Colonies with Great Britain affords, many an indication of God’s 
providence and also of answers to prayer. The best people of 




THE WASHINGTON MEMORIAE, VAEEEY FORGE, PENNSYLVANIA 



















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the colonies were praying to God for liberty. They sought 
honestly to put themselves on the side of right in the issue; the 
colonies were not the aggressors in the war. General George 
Washington was a God-fearing man. Wherever duty called him, 
whether Boston, Philadelphia, Morristown, or Yorktown, records 
show, General Washington regularly and reverently joined in the 
public worship of God. Furthermore, it is well known that he 
vigorously denounced the profanity of his soldiers and as earnest¬ 
ly besought the blessings of heaven upon the colonial armies. 
During the sore trial with intrigue and the terrible sufferings 
notably at the winter encampment—Valley Forge, the noble com¬ 
mander literally wrestled in prayer on his knees in snowy thickets* 
that God would give victory to the colonists’ cause. God does 
not intervene personally or by legions of angels but he does 
confound the war counsels of the enemy and inspire the zealots 
of liberty. Certain it is, Gen. Howe blundered in not cooperat¬ 
ing with Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga. Time and again too, the 
British were surprised and foiled by the Fabian tactics of Gen. 
Washington who would disappear at one spot and suddenly re¬ 
appear in attack at another. Was it not providence that be¬ 
calmed the British fleet in the Narrows; rolled in a dense fog 
from the ocean, settling it upon land and river, so that in the 
few hours of that black night, nine thousand soldiers with nearly 
all their artillery and stores safely withdrew from the Long 
Island shore to New York ere their retreat was suspected by the 
English who were within hearing at sentry challenge distance? 
The successful retreats and sallies of Washington, on the Dela¬ 
ware river, at Trenton and at Princeton, in all their interesting 
historic details clearly show the Divine aid extended to the 
struggling colonial forces. The comment of the historian is 
noteworthy,—“God does not always help the heavy battalions”. 
The war was won and a new nation given to the world, we be¬ 
lieve, because God willed to answer the prayers of an earnest 
people and a God-fearing leader. However as Schiller said, 
“God only helps when man can help no more.” 

As individuals, God may let us pray on to test our faith, or 


* In Valley Forge Park, on the Lincoln Highway stands that 
original conception of Rev. Dr. W. Herbert Burk, The WASH¬ 
INGTON Memorial Chapel and Churchyard commemorative of the 
prayers of our country’s great father. Vide Newton on “Paoli”, 
Atlantic Monthly 1922. 





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until we learn our greatest positive needs. He would teach us 
too, that we should not ask Him to do what He has already en¬ 
dowed us to do ourselves. We must respect the Divine economy 
and to a certain extent, seek to answer our own prayers. As the 
deacon’s son remarked after the every day petition,—“may the 
hungry be fed:”—“Father, just loan me the key to the granary, 
and I will answer some of your prayers.” God delights in His 
childrens’ confidence. He is not deaf nor asleep. He does help 
the needy and troubled. He will direct our course, if we ask 
guidance. We are to wait for His answer. We should not pray 
and then hurry on our own way; listen and wait; doors will 
open and doors will close. Sometimes we come to the extreme 
verge of necessity before relief appears. Answers to prayer 
may be different from what we expect,—“The prayers, I thought 
unanswered once, were answered in God’s own best way.” We 
cannot break laws and expect God to repair damages on account 
of prayers; He does save and serve the unfortunate; He will 
lead; He will comfort; He will bless our efforts for society. Man 
must not be a hinderance to God’s will. He does answer the 
reasonable prayer looking in the direction of His purpose; in 
other words, our petitions should reach Christward in principle. 

If the heart aspires. God inspires. To prayers of aspiration, 
the Father gives inspiration—an answer in the soul—by the 
waft of his Spirit. The greatest true prayer is always, “Thy will 
be done in earth as it is in heaven.” 

In the Father of Lights abides no inconstancy nor fickleness. 
He never tempts men to evil. He giveth good gifts, the revealed 
Word, consciousness, sympathy, freedom, experience and so wis¬ 
dom. He provides the “light of life”, reason, conscience, natural, 
spiritual laws and overmastering goodness. He answers prayer. 
He directs providence. His great gift is Christ. His perfect 
boon to mankind is the Holy Spirit. 


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CHAPTER III. 

THE ORGANISM OE DEITY,—TRINITY. 

The nature of the Supreme Being is set forth in a body of 
sacred literature. The peoples of every age and clime possessing 
worthy religious faith, have contributed to the world’s sacred 
literature. Nevertheless *“Christianity”, says an authority, “is 
the one absolute and universal religion, marching to its triumph 
over all false religions, resuming their truths, while it rejects 
their errors, according to Scripture promise.” The Sacred Books 
of Christianity which come down through Greek, Aramaic and 
Hebrew composition, tell of the organism of the Deity. Accept¬ 
ing the religion of Jesus Christ as the “world religion” and hold¬ 
ing its ultimate resumptions and supernatural teachings as facts 
to be taken into account, the Bible doctrine of the Trinityf claims 
early consideration as the fundamental truth of revelation; yet 
the precise mode of God’s existence remains unrevealed and the 
mystery of the Trinity can have no plain explanation; for words 
only faintly convey and imperfectly approximate the deep 
significance of the doctrine. The Triune existence is unsearch¬ 
able, but it is not self-contradictory. Human comprehension 
must not be made the measure of the greatness or the mode of 
the Divine life. God exists “a se”, hence the term aseity ac¬ 
curately expresses His self-existence. 

“Go to Jordan and you will see the Trinity” reads an ancient 
Latin proverb. At the River Jordan, on a certain day, behold 
the impressive picture. John the Baptist is receiving by his 
simple form of baptism, eager multitudes, when there appears 
among them a young Galilean of John’s own kindred, who quietly 
seeks with prayer on his lips, the modest rite. At length, the 
Baptist recognizes in the pure and noble Jesus of Nazareth, the 

* Rev. Dr. John H. Barrows in “Ten Great Religions of the 
World.” 

f Five centuries before Christ, Chinese Tao was described by 
Lao-tsze as the Great-All-Permeating who produced Unity. From 
Tao’s Unity came Duality, then Duality put forth Trinity, and 
Trinity brought forth all objects. 





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the) conquering horseman 


promised Messiah. Proofs are not wanting. Upon the Eternal 
Truth Revealer descends from the unseen realm in bodily form 
as a dove, the Holy Spirit. Thru the silence of the desert air 
echoes the miraculous voice of the Father in approval of Christ, 
the Son. In that solemn scene, heaven, earth, and humanity 
bear witness to the special and personal manifestation of God 
among men. The Scripture record thus unveils Father, Son 
and Spirit, as the three eternal distinctions of the Deity. 

God is made known to his people as “One in Three and Three 
in One.” In his being, the Deity is one essence in three relation¬ 
ships, Father, Son, and Spirit. Each possesses all the attributes 
of the entire substance of the Trinity. The sameness in essence 
of the three subsistences (uKouzccGiq) finds illustration vari¬ 
ously but imperfectly. Water, one substance, appears in the 
cloud, the rain, and the rising vapor; or again, as fountain, 
stream and outflowing rivulet. Material objects are frequently 
described by three properties of color, shape and size. World 
space contains three dimensions of length, breadth and thickness. 
The soul has its powers of intellect, feeling and will. God, the 
Father may exhibit the Divine mind, God, the Son may emphasize 
the out-reaching compassion. God, the Spirit may display the 
active will force of the Triune Being. Father, Son and Spirit, 
ALL and SEVERALLY created the universe. The Father pre- 
serveth, the Son upholdeth and the Spirit energizes all things, 
the Triunity concurring in every act. Wherever the Spirit acts, 
God quickens; whenever Christ acts, God acts; wherever Christ 
acts, God is. 

Many intimations of the Trinity appear in the Old Testament 
Scriptures. The Spirit broods upon the waters. Jehovah and 
the Angel of Jehovah commune with men. Plural pronouns, 
verbs and the noun Elohim frequently designate the Godhead. 
The Hebrew threefold benediction (Yahweh’s blessing com¬ 
manded) and the Trisagion (threefold ascription—Holy) are 
cumulative evidences of the Triune Godhead. Israel of the 
old covenant was restricted exactly to the idea of monotheism 
to prevent practices of heathen polytheism. In the New Testa¬ 
ment the Trinitarian doctrine is more clearly developed. * Ap¬ 
proach is to be made to the Father thru the Son, in the sphere 
of the Spirit; thus intercessory prayer is always to be offered. 


* 


Eph. 2:18. 



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21 


God, the Father is never sent by the Son nor the Spirit; and the 
Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father and the Spirit of the Son. 
The Helper (6 xapa*XY]To?) proceedeth from the Father thru 
the Son, but is never said to operate thru the other persons; 
He is the continued life of the Saviour sent to sanctify the world. 
Christ offered *Himself thru the Eternal Spirit to God. “Only 
Begotten God” (W. & H. Gk. John 1; 18) denoting no other 
similar One, stands as an unmistakable assertion of Christ’s deity. 
Christ, the only begotten Son of the Father has been expounded 
otherwise to be “perpetually born” by paternal communication 
with power from eternity; for the Divine prerogatives are associa¬ 
tion, intercommunion and affection; the Eternal is no solitary 
being; His relationships are more like the family life. The 
Trinity finds complete Scripture application in—“the one God 
and Father of All, who is over all (Father), and thru all (as 
Christ) and in you all (by the Spirit). 

Deity is an organic unity, one intellect, one heart of love, 
one will and one holy nature. The Trinity carries evidences 
Godward. It is not necessarily all there is of the Divine organ¬ 
ism. The Trinity is the declaration of all that God has seen 
fit to make known to men thru the Word. 

At the home of a substantial family in a country manor, about 
five days before his death, an aged father called to his bedside 
his Beloved son—an official of the state legislature. The devout 
old man whispered urgently, “My son, bring pen, ink and paper. 
You will write as I dictate.” The following is an exact copy 
of the document drawn and signed by the trembling hand of the 
sainted father. No one could have been more surprised than 
the son at the solemn procedure. 

THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. 

I WILL myself and my dear children and my grand 
children and their posterity, to God the Father, Son 

and Holy Ghost, through time, praying that the blessing 
of God might rest upon them, believing that the three 

persons in the Trinity are equal in Power and in Glory. 

O. 

July 25, 1838. B. C. 


* Heb. 9:14. 







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The sublime Christ is not only the perfect image of God but 
indeed *the radiating effulgence of His glory, coequal and co¬ 
eternal with the Father. Whether in the mystic scenes of crea¬ 
tion, when the Triune God, perhaps gradually brought forth nature 
and life, when the Spirit of God moved upon the watery mass 
of plastic material, or when Jehovah after His own image created 
the soul of man, or in the redemptive scenes, when Christ was 
revealing the Father in Himself, when His continued life was 
promised in the Comforter Divine, the equality of Father, Son 
and Spirit is many times made evident by the Scripture story. 
Indeed, in the face of subordinations, the conclusion grows more 
and more certain, thru progressive revelation, that the first, the 
second, and the third persons of Trinity are forever equal in 
majesty, in power, and in glory, while in essence and in activity, 
All are One. 

Light radiates as vibratory motion from the sun and the stars 
of the universe. Solar radiance by its luminosity dispels the 
darkness of earth. Colors of the rainbow are unraveled light 
whose rays, dispersed thru the prism of the spectroscope, also 
disclose by the Fraunhofer lines the component nature of the 
SUN. Heat is discerned when sunlight kindles a flame at the 
focus of the burning glass. By analysis of light the luminous, 
actinic and caloric ray effects appear each is distinct but never 
without the others. Brightness, color and heat are the sensations 
that light produces. We mention sunlight, rainbow and heat as 
the well known forms of solar radiation; two of these are in¬ 
visible and the other is visible. fLight is the recognized em- 


* Col. 1:19. Heb. 1:3. 

f Einstein discards “assumptions of ether” because it “cannot 
be observed”; Planck proposes the Quantum Theory of light. 
Color results from perception of differing vibrations of light: red 
is slow; violet is rapid. Is the interstellar region a void or is its 
blackness due to the rapid vibrations of the ultra-violet rays? Are 
light, “radio,” and electricity only different frequencies of the same 
energy? Heat is known as “black radiation”, Said President 
Hitchcock to the assembled students in Appleton Cabinet Building, 
Amherst: “Gentlemen, all the light we get here, comes from God.” 

The velocity of light in vacuo is 186,337 miles per second. This 
symbolizes “Infinite Velocity”. Daily the earth receives about 
160 tons of free electrons in light-energy from the sun. Cosmic 
force generally appears to be electromagnetic. Did such force 
originate cosmic matter? The electron (-nXey.TOOv),—amber 
force—is not only related to matter as it were in coarse grains 
of negative electricity but is apparent in the vibratory energy of 



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them of Deity. Divine Trinity everywhere present, is tri-personai 
unity, while light is trinity in a single substance diffused every¬ 
where as the self-emanating, palpitating, glorious manifestation 
of our great central sun. In large measure then, solar radiance 
may stand for the Godhead. The Father is the sunlight of the 
soul. He is the light of all our seeing. The Son appearing on 
earth and returning thence like the rainbow, is Divine presence 
seen and physically revealed; the bow with its prismatic colors 
is light unraveled by the falling rain drops; Jesus Christ in His 
perishable numan body, is God unraveled in His inner nature. 
Heat-light is like the invisible Saviour best made known and felt 
through the continued power of the Holy Spirit. The first and 
third person of the Trinity, are ever invisible, but the second has 
been seen by men. Truly, “God is light and in Him is no dark¬ 
ness at all.” 

* * * * * * 

God, nature, energy are a related three. The Jehovah of Israel 
is revealed as Spirit. We are discerning the connecting link be¬ 
tween nature and Universal Spirit in the vibrating energy of 
science. Herein is a divine overmastering touch. 

In the formula of Christian baptism and by the Apostolic 
benediction, the Triune God is plainly set forth. The spiritual 
conviction cannot be denied that God is One in every thought, 
feeling and intention. 

“To Father, Son, and Spirit, ever blest, 

Eternal praise and worship be address’d; 

From age to age ye saints His name adore, 

And spread His fame till time shall be no more.” 

light. The electronic theory of matter is being extended to the 
quantum theory of radiation. The interchanges between matter 
and radiation take place by the emission of quanta of energy. 
Plank’s Constant h is (6.56 times 10 to the 27th power) and n 
being frequencies, h x n==hn, the number of ergs in a quantum. 
Discrete units of helium (yiXcoc) energy are propelled thru 
empty space at discontinuous intervals. The elementary units are 
projected out by short leaps. In the front of the luminous trans¬ 
verse waves sweeping thru space, gaps occur. Radiation is also 
concerned with the acceleration of the electrified particles 
expelled which take form in divisable and expansible transverse 
waves. Light is emitted and absorbed in the shape of quanta of 
electric vibrations or oscillations, in effect like Faraday’s lines of 
force. Notwithstanding chemical, absorbent and propulsive 
qualities, light appears to us as a non=material energy. Is light 
mediated thru the Universal Spirit of Deity? (Vide supplement¬ 
ary note—“Who or What is GOD?” 



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CHAPTER IV. 

i 

amidst the debasing activities oe ambitious autocracy. 

After the pattern of the Triune God was humanity created. 
“God made man upright but they have sought out many in¬ 
ventions.” Man should be devoted to the pursuit of righteous¬ 
ness but disobedience is his natural tendency. Tho God is im¬ 
measurable goodness and tho Christ implanted a new heredity 
by the realm of the Spirit, man is left free to choose self or the 
world, rather than God. Man has the incentive to good but 
displays much fertility in evil. 

When shall entranced travelers forget to admire and praise 
the bold scenery* classical art, and historical prestige of ancient 
Europe? In spite of memorable surroundings thru picturesque 
nature and architecture, here, have debasing influences long beset 
the lives of mankind. The “Continental Sunday” of the great 
cities is notorious. During the years of prosperity, by worldly 
frivolities of the passing hour, lack of religious restraint and 
reverence for God as well as lack of seriousness of thought, 
steadily increased. Both in America and Europe, sensationalism 
and exciting adventure ruled the crowds; the absorbing desire 
had become freedom from moral restrictions and merely to enjoy 
the fleeting pleasures of life. Is some fault seen, in the swiftness 
of the age—the “keeping up idea”? Anyhow, in the larger 
continental centres, dance halls, gaming tables, wine rooms, beer 
gardens and cheap theaters have readily allured the fairy fancy 
throng of sensation lovers. Doubtless, street walking, the cafe 
habit and bawdy houses with state regulated immoralities min¬ 
istered much to the moral decline. While the past is not our 
master, it may shape the trend of destiny. Speakers at the 
World’s Congress of Religions, in 1893 at Chicago, disclosed the 
growing degeneracy abroad. It was shown that “State regulated 
vice” may mean slavery. To escape from brothel slavery, a 
handsome young girl was seen to jump from a fourth story 


* “See Naples and its bay and then die,” Mt, Blanc, Tower 
of Pisa, Cathedral of Rheims, etc. 




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25 


window in Geneva, whither she had been sold for a price by a 
vice master of Berlin. The girl’s life being spared, of her im¬ 
moral imprisonment, she said to her rescuer,— “When I thought 
of God, I could endure it no longer, and I resolved to take the 
chance of my life for escape.” Her slavery was worse than 
chattelism of the blacks. 

Another speaker glimpsed Germany’s State paternalism, and 
hinted further as to her laws, e.g. old-age pensions. Count A. 
Bernstorff of Berlin, in a paper on the “Religious State of Ger¬ 
many” reported that things were bad enough without any ex¬ 
aggeration; that spiritual problems had to be fought out in Ger¬ 
many; that antagonisms between Protestants and Catholics were 
sharp; that an old feud between Lutherans and Calvinists was 
now settled; that the foremost problem of the only influential 
churches—the national ones—was the struggle for greater inde¬ 
pendence from the State; that the Professor Rietschl school of 
critical theology was cleverly teaching that Christ was only a 
man of the highest development and was not preexistent eternally; 
that redemption was only symbolic; that prayer was only a 
gymnastic exercise, ineffectual in heaven; that numerous students 
and pulpits were coming under the charm of this theology. That 
the Socialist movement was spreading utter atheism among the 
working classes and never before was it declared with such 
emphasis—“there is no God”. A visitor to the churches of Ger¬ 
many in 1914, found “locked edifices and sparse congregations.” 

Medical opinion would attribute Germany’s moral degeneracy 
to deteriorated stock and race substitution and would charge 
the army cruelties to nature as in Dr. Sadler’s formula—“Nordic 
egotism plus Alpine stupidity”: that the Nordic stock of “long 
heads” constitute not more than twelve per cent, of the population 
as against the preponderant balance of Alpine stock of “round 
head Germans.” Did the war savagery of the hired Hessian 
soldiers descend thru more than one hundred years to spend itself 
in the inhumanities of the World War? Shall we believe that 
the mantle of Attila the Hun, the “scourge of God” dropped 
down the centuries to rest upon the shoulders of Wilhelm Hohen- 
zollern? 

Many circumstances go to show that German Autocracy ar¬ 
ranged the conditions for the Kaiser’s “defensive war”. Perhaps 
the rise of socialism urged on such a cure for the diseased State. 
Certainly, Krupp von Bohlen rather than Christ of Calvary 




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dictated German policy; or military science rather than right 
was most influential in the Imperial domain. “Some men’s sins 
are evident, going before unto judgment; and some men also 
they follow after.” 

“Germany’s Kultur was increasingly away from Christ’s cross 
towards the crime of conquest for the Kaiser. “Because sen¬ 
tence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the 
heart of the sons of men is emboldened in them to do evil.” “The 
meek shall inherit the earth,” taught Christ, but “Kultur of the 
Germans” basely urged, “await no inheritance”, “be strong as 
the brute, go forth like the lion, swarm like the wolf pack, the 
‘Overman’ shall rule, might is always right, the Old German War 
God is with you, ye are His chosen people, take the world by 
force, do not scruple as to method, only succeed .” “The great¬ 
est crime shall be the failure to win territory and loot.” Evidence 
is cumulative that world dominion was the high stake of the 
Kaiser’s savage minions; only the inspired watchword of the 
valiant, “They shall not pass” saved the troubled earth. And 
yet, the Teutons of Aryan stock were not so much at fault by 
nature as by debasing nurture. Some of the best American 
citizens are Germans; and they are as humane as Anglo-Saxons. 
Why then, should it be true that an age never bred a generation 
more fruitful in wickedness than these hostile Huns? Said the 
late Ex-president, Theodore Roosevelt “Germany became an ene¬ 
my of the United States as the appalling results of her sordid 
and brutal soul-training for the last forty years. The whole 
moral and political attitude of her people must be fundamentally 
changed.” In fine, leadership and environment debased the 
Imperial civilization until “Kultur” is the byword of sarcasm 
and the sign of the foulness of sin. 

Nations like individuals degenerate thru sinful practices and 
ideals. Germany like an unruly child needed discipline. She has 
to be taught to obey the ten commandments. The Republic or 
State must be made to observe the principles of moral as well as 
international law. This came to pass because the confederation 
of Germany (an Empire of some twenty five states and a prov¬ 
ince) was badly misguided by Machtpolitik,—its almighty pol¬ 
itics, may we say? The Germans while never exactly deprived 
of their liberties, always exercised them subject to the program 
of Imperial Absolutism; all freedom was directed solely to the 
prosperity of the State; subservience to the State was the highest 


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virtue; the German citizen was taught obedience and self¬ 
surrender. The civilization thus fostered was one of fear, jeal¬ 
ousy, fraud and force. The State was deified and made omni¬ 
potent and all its acts were non-moral; it could never do wrong. 
To increase the population, this “holy empire” encouraged con¬ 
cubinage for university students, and lateral marriages for soldiers’ 
wives, adultery in fact under State regulation. “Killing in war” 
was turned into murder by this aggressive Empire, which taught 
thru snide, lust, drunkenness, pillage, devastation, wantonness, 
hatred, superiority, in the interests of the State. 

Said Goethe, about a century ago, “The Prussian is a brute, 
and when he becomes civilized, he will be ferocious.” Prussian- 
ism proclaimed and sustained the doctrine of State supremacy 
and the policy of a perfected and well organized army which its 
kings fostered as enabling them to appropriate the good things 
of earth by conquest. Before the War, (Jan. 10, 1914) the 
Prussian Landtag records Herr Bethmann-Plollweg as saying 
“The dearest desire of every Prussian is to see the king’s army 
remain completely under the control of the king and not to be¬ 
come the army of Parliament.” The king was over-lord of the 
army and commander-in-chief in the Empire. The soldiers 
served not the Fatherland but the Emperor to whom as Prussian 
King they were attached as comrades. Loyalty to the Kaiser 
who represented the State might then be interpreted as Imperial 
patriotism. Prussianized Germany degraded the moral prin¬ 
ciples of Martin Luther; gone alas, were the noble ideals of 
Immanuel Kant; left afar behind were the aims of Goethe, 
Lessing, Schiller and many more to whom the world is greatly 
indebted; Prussianism broke entirely with old Germany. The 
doctrine was “der Tag” or the day of army conquest. The now 
shattered hopes of which lie in the following evanescent dream 
of Wilhelm the *Peacemaker or better pacemaker— “From my 
childhood I have been under the influence of five men,—Alex¬ 
ander, Julius Caesar, Theodoric II. Frederick the Great and Napol¬ 
eon. Each of these men dreamed a dream of a world empire; 
they failed. I am dreaming a dream of a German world empire— 
and my mailed fist shall succeed.” So spake the would-be-super¬ 
conqueror. Was he the chief Prussian Werewolf? 

* Revised Beatitude in 1919—Blessed are the Peacemakers: 
for they shall enter Paris. 



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War, famine and drunkenness are the three greatest of calam¬ 
ities that can assail humanity. The Great War of 1914, let 
loose the world’s flood gates of bloody slaughter which brought 
in its train wide-spread starvation, and incited the insanity of 
drink and lust among the despoilers of Europe. The lives of 
millions of soldiers, men, women, children and animals were 
cruelly destroyed. Besides even “the murder of nature” was 
designedly wrought upon the face of more than four million 
acres of fair lands. Whence came the ravenous and ferocious 
spirit which could perform this ruin of all life? In His unveiling 
of the parable of the *sheepfold, Christ asserts in substance, I 
am the door of the fold thru which the sheep must enter for 
safety; I came that they may have life and may have abundance. 
I am the good shepherd that layeth down His life for the sheep; 
the entering shepherd knoweth his own sheep and is known of 
them; the hireling careth not for the sheep; when he beholdeth 
the wolf coming (which entereth not by the door but climbeth 
up some other way) he leaveth the sheep and fleeth, and the 
wolf snatcheth the sheep and scattereth them. I am the shep¬ 
herd self-devoted to my own sheep whom I know even as the 
Father knoweth me; and other sheep who hear my voice, I must 
bring into the one flock; there shall be one safe fold of the flock. 
I am the life-sacrificing shepherd,—the door of the sheep. All 
that came before me are thieves and robbers (the Pharisees?); 
the thief cometh that he may steal, kill and destroy. In the 
name of State and Kaiser, was it the spirit of the stealthy, prowl¬ 
ing, yellow wolf pack that incited murder, robbery, devastation 
and brought to the earth anew mankind’s greatest calamities? 
What is this grasping, thieving, bloodthirsty spirit? Is it not 
the wolfish spirit? The spectacle set before God, men and angels, 
is that of the werewolf rather than the Uebermensch. 

Wilhelm I, early in his reign called to his side, Otto von Bis¬ 
marck, a despotic Prussian who proved to be a monarch maker. 
Eventually he made his king, absolute over an empire and dis¬ 
tinguished himself as the chancellor of “blood and iron.” Under 
his guidance Prussia quickly won three wars against Denmark, 
Austria and France. In 1864 by a short campaign, armed 


* Sheepfold rather than Good Shepherd because the story of 
the blind man and Jewish opposition should be included with 
the whole tenth chapter of John. 



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Prussia took from Denmark, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, 
incorporating them later as a province of the Empire. Out of 
this victory and a growing German union of states, the intriguing 
autocrat developed for his royal master a Confederation of North 
Germans held loosely under a constitution of Imperial Absolut¬ 
ism which finally extended over the whole Fatherland after the 
victories of Sadowa and Sedan. In 1866 thru several quick 
defeats, Prussia completed the humiliation of Austria and by the 
peace of Prague, Austria was restrained from German political 
affairs further. In the year 1870 war was provoked with France; 
in this brief conflict the South German States cooperated with 
the Prussian Union. Bismarck the shrewd, is dramatically ex¬ 
alted by the Prussian beatitude to this day: “Blessed is the hand 
that falsified the Ems telegram from the king.” “Those traced 
lines” published next morning by the trick of Moltke, Roon and 
Bismarck set giddy France aflame to punish Prussia. Within 
a few short weeks, the French government tottered to its ruin; 
her armies were baffled as in the disaster at Sedan and besieged 
Paris was starved into submission. The triumphant German 
Confederation paraded her armies thru Paris, secured the annexa¬ 
tion of Alsace and Lorraine and held France for an indemnity 
amounting to about one billion dollars. Thus thru a policy of 
fraud, force and blood, the German Empire was established as 
the master power of continental Europe by her crafty pilot. He 
made his emperor (proclaimed and crowned at Versailles in 1871) 
the “All-Highest” monarch, while Prussian control became prac¬ 
tically supreme in the confederated State. 

Amazingly succesful in three short wars of her history, is it 
so incredible that an ambitious ruler and his lords should have 
directed the education of modern Germany to the business of 
war,—profitable war? The wonderful prosperity of the nine¬ 
teenth century w r as the rich soil for growth in preparations looking 
to wolfish conquest,—“the day” for Teutonia to rule the earth,—- 
to go out to take charge of this planet of the sun, was ever coming, 
only just ahead. Special organizations, pastors, universities and 
the press were won by self-interest or compulsion to agitate and 
to support the war propaganda of the Junkers. 

Germany put into the schools whatever ideas, she would bring 
out in the life of the State. As the twig is bent, the tree is 
inclined. Children were early taught the need and blessedness 
of wars and to aspire to high military preferment in the state 


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before the emperor appointed of God.* The one aim was the 
rearing of children for warfare in the Germanic sense. A con¬ 
densed statement from Otto von Gottberg’s militarism for boys 
may illustrate: “War is the noblest and holiest expression of 
human activity. . . . For us, too, (youths) the great joyful 
hour of battle will some day strike. . . . War is grand. Its 
august sublimity lifts man’s heart beyond the commonplace and 
earthly. . . . After a battle on earth is won by German arms 
and the faithful dead ascend to heaven, a Potsdam lance corporal 
will call the guard to the door and “old Fritz” (Frederick the 
Great) springing from his golden throne, will introduce them as 
heroes and give the command to present arms. That is the 
heaven of young Germany.” Tons of literature and pamphlets 
were sent out to perpetuate and extend German loyalty within 
and outside the empire, after the Pan-German party organized 
its league, its union, its naval and defence societies with press 
organs, from about the years 1890 to 1894. The high destiny 
of German influence (Deutschtum) for uniting all Germans on the 
globe was studiously proclaimed. The pastors of all churches 
were bound by an oath to the crown and its system of militarism, 
while the university professors felt the same control. The news¬ 
paper press was muzzled by bureaucratic interests. Public opin¬ 
ion was so shaped by the Kaiser that the ethical and political 
standards were his own; little was left to the individual; the 
Kaiser’s view was the rule of right. Said he (in 1896) pointedly: 
“The German empire has become a world empire. Everywhere 
in distant quarters of the earth, thousands of our country¬ 
men are living. It is your duty, gentlemen, to help bind this 
greater German empire firmly to our ancestral home. . . .You 
must help me to do my duty ... to the many thousands of 
countrymen in foreign lands. This means that I may be able 
to protect them if I must.” At Bremen later, the Kaiser de¬ 
clared: “God has called us to civilize the world; we are the 
missionaries of human progress.” The Kaiser’s addresses fur¬ 
ther abounded in military incitement as to deeds of “glorified 
ancestors”, “sharpening the sword” and “wearing shining armor.” 
At Naples, six months before the World War began, an American 
woman presented the then crown prince, Frederick Wilhelm, a 


* Bismarck translated “von Gottes Gnaden” as “By grace of 
Divine permission” but the Kaiser insisted that “He the All- 
Highest” ruled “By grace of Divine appointment”—ordained to 
rule. 



the; conquering horseman 


31 


popular pacifist book urging that war is unprofitable. The 
Prince quickly replied: “Whether profitable or not, 'when he 
came to the throne there would be war, if not before, just for the 
fun of it.” In the year 1913, writing the introduction to a Pan- 
German party book entitled, “Germany in Arms” the Prince 
made the point that “to conquer that place in the sun which 
rightly belongs to us . . . the ultimate decision must rest with 
the (German) sword.” So then as viewed by Germany’s rulers, 
if not complete dominion of earth, at least colonial expansion 
appeared necessary; that opportunities might be afforded Prus¬ 
sian officialdom and German commerce for exploitation of 
foreigners; hence a navy rivaling England had to be built up. 
German “necessity knew no law”, of right better than warfare. 

The Hohenzollern dynasty was naturally for years flattered 
and courted by the ambitious. Hosts of philosophers, writers, 
lecturers, and professors sought to invent theories, and hammer 
into the minds of the people opinions agreeable to governmental 
infallibility and the plans of conquest. The invasion of France 
and the demand of a bleeding indemnity fund was long the 
^purpose of Germany’s war lords. So far as possible secrecy 
was preserved, plausible excuse and favorable time was sought. 
To this end, industrial efficiency as well as systematic agitation 
was made to contribute. Such societal evolution led Germany 
on to war and savagery. Even the meaning of the Bible was 
distorted to the ends of warfare and human destruction. In 
spite of the boastings of Divine invocation and dependence, 
Germany’s piety in high life proved unprincipled and conscience¬ 
less; her national code and consequent mores was neither right 
nor rational, certainly not spiritual in tendencies. 

“By their fruits, ye shall know them.” Germany has had 
true prophets as well as false ones, but the counsel of the “raven¬ 
ing wolves” type usually prevailed. One court preacher of the 
cathedral of Berlin at the time of an anniversary of a Franco- 
Prussian war battle, warned against the growing extravagance r 
luxury, haste for riches, and mad speculation which had followed 
the payment of the French indemnity; in conclusion he said: 
“We expect roses to grow on the graves of our heroes—but lo, 

* At a civic function, one evening in Berlin about 1904, a friend 
of the author, saw the drinking publicly to “der Tag but did not 
then credit its meaning. 



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\ 

nettles.” Indeed what a crop of “nettles” also poison came to 
harvest in the World War. 

Prominent among the poison scatterers was Heinrich von 
Treitschke for more than twenty years the most influential 
lecturer and writer of the University of Berlin and the official 
historian of the Hohenzollerns. The deaf professor, brilliant, 
adroit, vigorous and eloquent, attracted to his class room, officials 
of the government, his own colleagues, people of world distinc¬ 
tion, while his regular hearers were young scions of the aristocracy, 
noblemen, future generals and diplomats—those who have di¬ 
rected the course of Germany since the opening of the twentieth 
century. The lurking danger was the half, or concealed errors 
of his noble sounding instruction which sent young men out of 
his lectures, their minds buzzing with false ideals which did much 
to threaten the world’s peace. His literature was very readable 
and absorbing in interest and so, widely circulated. He created 
intense enthusiasm for the Fatherland and the Emperor. By 
specious argument, he taught colonial expansion to be duty that 
the State might be powerful; that conquered tribes must be put 
to the sword or Germanized, for it made for the health of human¬ 
ity that the nobler race should absorb the inferior stock; that 
weakness is the unpardonable sin—the sin against the Holy 
Ghost—of politics; that the statesman who acts unwisely is 
immoral, that he cannot warm his hands with smug self-laudation 
at the smoking ruins of his Fatherland and comfort himself by 
saying “I have never lied;” that war is both justifiable and moral 
and that perpetual peace is not only impossible but immoral as 
well; that the living God will take care that war shall return again 
a ^terrible medicine for diseased mankind. He glorified the 
State as above moral law. While disparaging other races, he 
especially emphasized hatred towards all Britons. Both he and 
General Bernhardi implicitly taught that treaties are only “scraps 
of paper”, in that a treaty represents the terms of a victory or 
rather the conditions of a conquest in war and that might gives 


* So the Kaiser gave charge to his armies of the east,—“I am 
the instrument of the Almighty—I am His sword—His agent; 
woe and death to those who are opposed to my will; woe and 
death to those who do not believe in my mission! Woe and 
death to all cowards. Let them perish, all the enemies of the 
German people! God demands their destruction: God who by 
my mouth bids you do His will.” 



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the right to possession, for war secures a just decision which 
rests in the nature of things” so that whenever a treaty does 
not express a nation’s political status quo, (if negotiations fail) 
it may proceed to the ordeal of battle to determine a judgment 
afresh. Because history is in constant flux, war is a part of the 
Divinely appointed order. Moral necessity makes the righteous¬ 
ness of the war. Treitschke was always referred to by the Kaiser 
as “our great national historian.” 

“Aspirations for peace . . . threaten to poison the soul of the 
German people” wrote General F. A. J. von Bernhardi, cavalry 
officer of the Great General Staff as in 1911 he prophesied the 
purpose and methods of “Germany and the Next War”. His 
book did not perhaps express exact official sentiments, but when 
in 1914, the German General Staff followed nearly all the propo¬ 
sitions and teachings of Bernhardi, it seemed apparent that the 
Prussian officers were operating the Imperial war machine ac¬ 
cording to a fixed plan which he well knew in advance. He 
quoted reverently from Treitschke and appropriating, he ampli¬ 
fied many of the historian’s ideas. “France must be so complete¬ 
ly crushed that she can never again come across our path.” His 
theme-thought was “World-power or downfall will be our rally¬ 
ing cry in the next war.” In another book,—“Britain as Ger¬ 
many’s Vassel,” Bernhardi in the year 1912 said: “Our claim 
to a great position in the world may certainly lead to a war similar 
to the Seven Years’ War. Still we shall be as victorious as 
Prussia’s hero king. ... A great war will unify and elevate 
the people and destroy the diseases which threaten the national 
health. . . . Our future lies in our own hands. . . . What 
we want is a firm will to greatness— . . . Thru war to victory.” 

An important sower of nettles in modern Germany who died 
a mad man in 1900 was her favorite philosopher, Friedrich W. 
Nietzsche. Tho he scoffed at Prussianism, his writings were the 
very essence of cruel militarism. Without disturbing the church- 
ly relations of numerous followers, his slanders of Christianity, 
disdain for moral virtues which he treated as superstitions, and 
the aphorisms of his sage Zarathustra have sunk deeply into 
the German soul. “Kultur can by no means dispense with 
passions, vices, malignities.” “Thou shalt not rob! Thou shalt 
not slay!—Such precepts were once called holy. Is not all 
life, robbing and slaying? This new table, O my brethren, put 
1 up over you, become hard!” 


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The acme of the cult however, was Nietzsche’s (Uebermensch) 
Over-man not superman (Werewolf of the human herd, we say) 
The blond werewolf, having rejected the golden rule and the 
“morality of slaves” which he sneeringly termed benevolence, 
liberty, equality and fraternity, shall come the egoist, “survival 
of the fittest”. This superior race shall live in freedom of un¬ 
bridled passions, power and pleasure, without belief in God or 
any future world. The doctrine exactly suited the Teutons, and 
his war gospel fitted the Pan-German dream of world dominion. 
The teachings of the “prophet of the mailed fist” were held in 
high regard by German soldiers and were well known. What 
kind of a nation might be expected to develope under such life¬ 
training? Ambitions were continually fed on easy sword con¬ 
quest of earth. 

German-Huns really believed themselves superior to all other 
races and that other peoples were worthy merely to serve as their 
bondsmen. They were exceedingly “wise in their own conceits”. 
These hero-soldiers “thought of themselves more highly than 
they ought to think” not soberly but madly. Conceit bred con¬ 
tempt and hatred for other nations. A race “chosen of God” 
should be pious but to attain their ends, they were absolved from 
principle. It was their duty anyhow to rule. So a world spy 
system was created; immense corruption funds were provided and 
spent; even ambassadors were instructed to cooperate; German 
professors in universities by exchange, aided; deceptions were 
practised to undermine neutral nations and rewards were promised 
in advance for help in conquest; strategic railways were built 
near the boundaries of friendly peoples. The first concern of 
Pan-Germany was a Middle Europe and a way from Hamburg 
to the Persian Gulf (Drang nach Osten); with this the Balkan 
treaty of 1913 at Bucharest interfered. Kaiser Wilhelm II. an¬ 
nounced to King Albert, November 1913, that “war was near and 
inevitable”; the late Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is quoted 
as saying in May, 1914 that “European war was unavoidable”, 
that the Central Powers would not accept the treaty of Bucharest 
as a settlement of the Balkan problem. The awakened Slav 
people of Serbia and Roumania had defeated the allied proteges * 
of the Central Powers and placed a barrier to the open road 
(Berlin-Bagdad Railway) to the East. Therefore the Were¬ 
wolf nations sought a pretext to prove their greater strength in 


* The Turks and at last the Bulgars had been defeated. 



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35 


war. Coaling stations and bases with trade privileges were need¬ 
ful everywhere; these would surely be increased by war. Strike 
first, strike hard, strike unexpectedly, was the secret intention; 
“Germany was sure to win” 

The decline in German official character as proved by conduct 
almost beggars description. An outline can only hint at the 
treachery, faithlessness, cruelty, and other foul deeds of these 
werewolf tribes. Since the close of the nineteenth century, 
chauvinism or German vain glory has been most appreciably 
increased. The green eye, jealousy aimed the insults at America 
in the Diedrichs-Dewey incident* at Manila Bay; the Kaiser 
retired and promoted Admiral von Diedrichs; and wrath was 
stored up against England. Twice the Moroccan question nearly 
plunged Europe into conflict; Germany rattled her sabre very 
vigorously; Pan-German literature poured out bitterness; her 
leading Junker-noble ranted loudly in the Reichstag and was 
cheered by the crown prince, Frederick Wilhelm; and more 
wrath was stored up for England against “the day”. This feeling 
found one form of expression later in Lissauer’s Chant of Hate 
against England. 

Military and economic preparations for war had been going 
on for years in Germany. It is credibly reported that for more 
than twenty years, eastern expansion and the Bagdad railway had 
been contemplated by the Kaiser. The Balkan situation always 
irritating was most especially antagonistic in the year 1914, 
since victorious Serbia, the little protege of Russia was expanded 
in territory directly across the pathway. 

The last days of June, 1914, Wilhelm II. was on board the ship 

* The English fleet sided with U. S. in the Manila Bay incident. 
With Admiral Dewey at Manila was Admiral Coghlan who in 
1899 before the Union League Club, New York, recited the 
humorous poem—Hoch Der Kaiser, in part as follows: 

Der Kaiser von das Fatherland 
Und Gott und I all dings command; 

Ve two-ach! Don’t you understand? 

Meinself—und Gott! 

In fact, I humor efry whim, 

Mit aspect dark und visage grim; 

Gott pulls mit me and I mit Him 
Meinself—und Gotti 

The poem had the Kaiser’s measure alright, but got Admiral 
Coghlan into trouble with the U. S. Naval department. 



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THE CONQUERING HORSEMAN 


Meteor at Kiel, with Ambassador Karl Max* and Count Felix 
Thun, an Austrian guest who was quite visibly aroused when the 
news came of the assassination at Serajevo on the 28th. The 
Austrian Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife 
had been shot to death in an automobile by a crazed Bosniak 
youth, a citizen of South Slav blood, but not a Serb, Prinzip by 
name. This Austrian subject in an Austrian city fired the fatal 
revolver shots after a certain Cabrinovitch (son of a local police 
spy) had already thrown bombs to arouse violence against Serbian 
agitators in Bosnia. fFavorable pretext was here furnished 
for war. 

In spite of Hohenzollern denials, the German Karl Max, better 
known as Prince Lichnowsky, Ambassador to England corroborates 
our Ambassador Morganthau as to the “decisive war conference”. 
The council met at Potsdam, July 5th, 1914, presided over by the 
Kaiser, attended by Austrian dignitaries, Germany’s bankers, 
railroad directors, captains of industry, General von Moltke of 
the army, Admiral von Tirpitz of the navy, Ambassador Wan- 
genheim of Turkey (now deceased), and a few other ambassadors 
who reported for their embassies. This momentous conclave 
discussed the hard terms of an ultimatum to Serbia and ad¬ 
judging the European conditions auspicious, plotted methodically 
to precipitate war upon Russia and France, thinking it unlikely 
that England would fight at first. The Kaiser himself asked 
each member of this Crown Council solemnly, “Are you ready 
for the war?” All the leading people assented unqualifiedly, 
except the financiers who requested two weeks time in which to 
make loans and market foreign securities. Stock market quota- 


* Commonljr abbreviated for Karl Maximilian, Prince Lich¬ 
nowsky. 

t At the news, the Kaiser exclaimed “Now I must begin all 
over again.” Was it made merely a pretext by war plotters? 
Was Austrian royalty further incensed at some supposed pact with 
the Kaiser at Konopisht castle? Why was no proper escort 
afforded the Archduke and Duchess? Why was their burial 
made so ignoble? Closely connected with the assassination was 
a banquet in Berlin of the crown prince and the German staff 
who once more drank to “The Day” in lavish style. Pretext is 
obvious. Cabrinovitch was unpunished. Assasin Prinzip under 
life sentence died in prison; rumor thru a trusty Austrian shows 
the youth an easy tool because as the natural son of Ferdinand 
and a cook, Prinzip failed to get money from the Duke, which he 
kept demanding for his education. 



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37 


tions prove that the time was used most diligently. So the 
conspirators evidently fixed upon August 1st, as about the right 
date to start the war. As to crossing Belgium, the reported re¬ 
mark of the Kaiser at another time is interesting here; he ex¬ 
claimed, waving his hand from right to left, “I shall go thru her 
like that”. It was expected that the war would be short and 
decisive for the Hun federation; it was to be understood as a “de¬ 
fensive campaign” to prevent “encirclement of the Fatherland”. 
After the council closed, the diplomats and lords went away on 
vacations. The Kaiser as a ruse, sailed away on a short yacht 
trip to Norway; he kept in “constant communication” with his 
war agents and was soon back again in consultation with the 
Austrians and Herr Krupp; the former were “delighted with the 
Kaiser’s determined attitude” according to *Dr. Helfferich. 
Austria-Hungary was to declare war practically by ultimatum on 
Serbia, July 23rd. If Russia mobilized, the Kaiser was to declare 
war at once. The plot of one of the greatest of human disasters 
was fixed definitely by unscrupulous lords; the people were de¬ 
lusively misled and in no wise consulted by ambitious autocracy. 
As scheduled, “without irresolution” the Kaiser declared war 
and mobilized against Russia, August 1st. The gigantic World 
War which eventually involved twenty eight nations and suffer¬ 
ings indescribable was devised by self-seeking Junkers. How 
was God responsible for this plot? “The will of the king is the 
highest law,” said the Kaiser. 

In spite of the wicked war propaganda, a numerous peace 
party existed in Germany up to the declaration of “war emer¬ 
gency” restrictions. It was earnestly protested that Austrian 
aggressions must not be permitted to ignite a world conflagration. 
Even, in Berlin, on July 29th, many mass meetings were held de¬ 
nouncing war; one is reported to have had 70,000 men in attend¬ 
ance. Backed by Germany, Austria’s ultimatum to Serbia ap¬ 
peared as predicted on July 23rd. The news of the ultimatum 
blazed up skyward in mighty flames. Germany would not per¬ 
mit Austria to consider even, peaceable terms with Serbia. 
Russia was led to a partial mobilization for her ally’s sake. 

Vorwaerts, the great Berlin organ of socialism, boldly declared 
that the demands on Serbia “were intended to provoke war.” 


* From the revelation of Dn Wilhelm Muehlon, ex-director 
of Krupp’s. 



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Later it stated that “the indications proved beyond a doubt 
that the camarilla of war lords was working by absolutely un¬ 
scrupulous means to carry out their fearful designs to precipitate 
an international war and start a world-wide fire to devastate 
Europe.” Further, on July 31st. it dared to declare that the 
“policy of the German Government was utterly without con¬ 
science.” Ambassador Lichnowsky, returning from England, 
found himself made the scapegoat for the catastrophe, by the 
deliberate report that “he had been deceived by Sir E. Grey, 
because if Grey had not wanted war, Russia would not have 
mobilized. Whereas by a Berlin press scheme of war seeking 
(responsibility for which it is difficult to fix) Russia was finally 
incited to full mobilization of her armies. 

Germany’s enthusiasm of the war elements was scorching 
hot; the war party and sensation lovers swarmed the streets of 
Berlin; soldiers were saying their farewells; singing and de¬ 
monstrations for war burst from eager crowds who trooped in 
throngs down the famous street of the Linden to the front of the 
huge gray palace of the Hohenzollerns, where shouts resounded 
(der Tag) “the day”, “THE DAY,” on to Petersburg”, 
“away to Paris”, “bomb London”, “strafe England”, “huzza!” 
“hurrah for the army and victory”. As if by appointment that 
Friday, July 30th at 1.15 p. m. the dramatic Kaiser appeared at 
a window of the palace above the upturned sea of faces, sending 
his sonorous voice out to the ears of thousands of his expectant 
subjects in this proudest moment of his life,— 

“A fateful DAY has struck for Germany. Envious 
peoples every where are compelling us to our just de¬ 
fense. The sword is being forced into our hand. . . . 

We should show our enemies what it means to provoke 
Germany. And now I commend you to God. Go to 
church, kneel down before God and pray for His help 
for our gallant army.” 

' How shall the black crime of the murder of millions be expiated 
before God? Who shall deny that fair Germany and Austria 
as well, was degraded to moral ruin by nurture of an absolute 
government with the canker worm of LIES at the Heart? 

It’s day and theirs shall be the awful day of JUDGMENT 
from God. 


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CHAPTER V. 

AS OVER-EORD OE WARRING HUMANITY. 

Well has Henry Chappell sung “The Day” of sin in the late 
Armageddon: 

*“You have boasted the Day and you toasted the Day, 
And now the Day has come. 

Blasphemer, braggart, and coward all, 

Little you reck of the numbing ball, 

The blasting shell, or the “White Arm’s” fall, 

As they speed poor humans home. 

You spied for the Day, you lied for the Day, 

And awoke the Day’s red spleen, 

Monster who asked God’s aid divine, 

Then strewed His seas with the ghastly mine— 

Not all the waters of all the Rhine 
Can wash thy foul hands clean. 

But after the Day, there’s a price to pay 
For the sleepers under the sod, 

And He you have mocked for many a day— 

Listen and hear what He has to say; 

Vengeance is mine, I will repay. 

What will you say to God?” 

In his book, entitled “German Atrocities”, Dr. Hillis tells how 
a dying German colonel while attempting to turn back into the 
Fatherland, passed away in the care of French peasants and a 
French priest. In recognition of their kindness the wounded 
German advised and arranged for their immediate flight by pass¬ 
ports, then as memory, his remorse and the day of judgment ter¬ 
rified him, he gasped out the following words, recorded by the 

* This poem—“The Day” and the “Chant of Hate against 
England” were published in The Outlook, Oct. 28, 1914. 



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priest,—“Curses upon our army, curses upon our Kaiser and our 
war staff, ten thousand curses upon the Fatherland! Either God 
is dead or Germany is doomed!” The blasphemous claim of 
Germany’s government appears on an aluminum token given to 
and carried by each soldier—his special order,—to slay, pillage 
and destroy. Under the crude figure of a German war God with 
reaping sickle, reads the slogan,—“Strike him dead, the Day of 
Judgment will not ask you for reasons.” 

Evil men brought on the World War, however it having come, 
God has caused even the wrath of men to praise Him; doubtless 
it was one step or needed shock in the overcoming for God, of 
earth’s evil. By His known laws of justice and truth, God called 
His faithful sons to cooperate with Him in stamping out the sin. 
Vicarious sacrifice is necessary; the good must suffer with the 
bad. Humanity can never make progress without cost; wicked¬ 
ness must be purged away with blood and treasure. “All things 
are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there 
is no remission.” As men tried slavery, piracy, labor exploited 
by capital, mormonism, and the drink traffic for gain, so colonial 
conquest and commercial greed thru force and autocratic power, 
have now been tried and found wanting. Men have learned the 
lesson by hard experience; they are led to say as never in any age 
before, in spite of the “pest of glory”—war! “No, never 
iagain!”* God has spoken to man out of the welter of human 
gore with no uncertain command,—“Beware, shun forever, ‘the 
grievousness of war’ that rends the heart and flesh of mankind.” 
“Neither shall ye teach men war; for greatest is the sin of ruler 
or government that shall teach men so.” Nor yet is God’s “in¬ 
dignation overpast” tho “all things work together for good” to 
the good or tho the war of nation upon nation has brought in 


* Rev. R. J. Campbell of London, Eng. quotes with approval 
the following American defiance of war: 

“Before the face of God, we swear: 

As life is good and sweet, 

Under the sun 

This horror shall not come again; 

Never, never again 
Shall twenty million men, 

Nor twenty, no nor ten, 

Leave all God gave them in the hands of one 
Leave the decision over peace and war 
To king or kaiser, president or tsar.” 



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41 


part its own punishment. In His own way, Eternal God shall 
* execute judgment upon men and nations. 

A difference should be clearly discerned between militarism 
(aggressive to attack) and militancy (obliged even unwillingly 
to make war in defence). By militarism, we understand a system 
of government by force; such system may be extended to educa¬ 
tion, to provincial management, to commerce, to industrialism 
and to general State supervision for efficiency, also to required 
military training. Necessary conditions within or without may 
call any nation to militancy or preparation for warfare without 
the purpose of permanency in arms; it may be to preserve peace 
or to maintain principles of right. The continual temptation 
of militarism lies in the feeling,—“What a pity not to use such 
a splendid army!” “When do our soldiers get their marching 
orders?” 

Like green scum which rises above the filthy waters of a corrupt 
pool, the sins of Europe which had long been seething, rose to 
surface view. Upon the background of civilization’s modern 
ideals, was portrayed in lurid light, the burning out of the smoky 
chimney of Teutonic mad ambitions. Humanity’s sufferings from 
the inhumanity of man demanded that unwilling militancy should 
cooperate with God to destroy the blood lust of militarism. 
Not Christianity but Christendom territorially, was forced to war 
against wilful iniquity. To the Divine vision, the intention to 
sin and cause wickedness was more monstrous than the deeds 
committed; only to man did the evil become more evident by 
actual commission. It was necessary that the corruption should 
rise to the surface; that the soot of sin should be burned out; 
that the hearts of crime should be laid bare; that the canvas of 
hideousness should be stretched to plain view; that ideals should 
be shaken; that civilization should be jolted to activity; that the 
reign of righteousness should be challenged openly by wrong. 
Man is perhaps in the earlier stages of his societal development; 
tyranny must be eradicated; justice must be wrought out; the 
honor of nations must be established; confidence must be restored; 
the upward path must be resumed; the world must be perfected 
by grinding. Man is the miller but God controls the mills of His 
universe; civilization must grind out its mores by experience; 


* Isa. 26:21. 



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i 

reject the chaff and garner the wheat. The grinding process is 
long and thoro, but sure. 

“Tho the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind 
exceeding small, 

Tho with patience stands He waiting, with exactness 
grinds He all.” 

So we apprehend that man is on trial and not God; that the 
sway of God cannot safely be ignored. To promulgate His 
principles, man must give continuous service or bloody sacrifice. 
The dwellers of earth are interdependent. No one liveth to 
himself alone; all are related. When any nation sins or suffers, 
others are affected. The betterment of mankind even admittedly 
man-kinned is tardy and uncertain. By steady agitation the 
world shall be won to eternal truth and harmony with holiness. 
The task is committed to God’s coworkers to cure the disorders 
created thru worldly, shrewd and lawless men. Thru neglect of 
real righteousness and by the heritage of an evil past, the ruin 
of Europe came—“Faith was waning and things were in the saddle 
to ride mankind”; and now the poor are consigned to an abject 
struggle with poverty. The discipline is severe. Man must 
learn that wars are ever to be shunned, that power belongeth 
unto God, whose spiritual conquest of the earth thru man is the 
supreme duty. If “glory” be the motto of an ambitious Napol¬ 
eon, and “duly” is the watchword of a Wellington, History re¬ 
affirms,—as by the outcome of a Waterloo— 

“Once again in this our island story, 

The path of duty was the way to glory.” 

The thorny road of duty has proven in the after history of the 
Marne and Verdun battles that deeds of cooperation with God 
by a nation as well as a hero shall not only vindicate the distinc¬ 
tion between right and wrong, but before heaven and humanity, 
nobly distinguish that nation with undying honor. The “de¬ 
cadent France” of the year 1914 is known as the glorious “splen¬ 
did France of 1916”. Even defensive patriotism if fought in 
loyalty to the cause of God and mankind shall evermore count 
for eternity. If GOD be not man’s Over-lord for good, why did 
not Germany destroy the Belgian army? How fail (with all 


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43 


stolen advantages) to take both Paris and Calais? Was some 
disappointment “taken out” in their Belgian atrocities and hatred 
towards England? 

God controls men by His providence, by the waft of His Spirit 
or impulsion of His presence and by laws. At all hazards and in 
all worlds, God is for, the cause of right. However, God does 
not promise in dealing with lawlessness, for example, to supplant 
human agency. He is necessarily self-restrained. Some who 
are evidently unacquainted with God, wonder why by His inter¬ 
vention he did not put a stop to human cruelties and atrocities? 
He who is acquainted with Him, while recognizing His unfathom¬ 
ableness, knows that God is limited inherently unto inner per¬ 
fection which may be highest sovereignty. How could He be 
both holy and imperfect at the same time? Further, may there 
not be metaphysical as well as moral contraventions, self-restrain¬ 
ing God? 

God rules free beings and governs them above their freedom. 
Having granted moral responsibility to His coworkers and the 
nations of earth, God will not interfere with their liberty of con¬ 
duct unless His guidance is besought. Substantially, Dr. Bush- 
nell’s statement challenges our present inquiry. All God’s works 
even of the supernatural realm, are determined by fixed laws, 
with the single exception of the bad actions of evil men. They 
are not subject to any fixed laws for they consent to no law. 
They are not determined by the laws of causality nor the laws 
of good end which are the laws of reason, truth and beneficence. 
Lawlessness is not in agreement with the world, with God, nor 
with the best good of the doers themselves. By His own free 
consent then, moral law shapes the character and ends unto 
harmony in God’s government. 

Some years ago, among the posthumous papers of the philoso¬ 
pher, John Stuart Mill, a friend was rather shocked to see the 
remark that “Divine Power is limited; that God appeals to man 
to overthrow what is evil and that which is opposed to Him.” 
In our day, mankind has thoroly recognized and largely experi¬ 
enced the difficulty of overthrowing evil even in cooperation 
with God. Some have striven in war; others have long struggled 
against sin, in the less illustrious conflict of “doing good in the 
world”. Certain it is, God is not working for good, without 
also working against evil. Humanly speaking, is God like the 
wise surgeon restrained from delicate far-reaching operation lest 


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some greater measure of evils ensue? Or again, like the high- 
minded statesman who even in a just cause, dreads to declare 
war, lest he be sentencing to death millions of men, and thousands 
of others to the tortures of so called Mars? Shall it be admitted 
that God is restrained or limited in His power? In what sense 
is God omnipotent? Saint Thomas Aquinas, the theologian of 
the Roman seminaries taught that omnipotence is power to do 
all possible things. Nothing is impossible to God , which does not 
involve contradiction. However, if all things are possible, yet 
some things do involve contradiction, so as one has said, the 
‘ theory of the All-Ruler’s unlimited power has very little which 
can be said for it.” Conservative thinkers see that Divine un¬ 
limited power would mean greater difficulties than that two 
parallel lines can bound a square. God, the omnipotent is in¬ 
deed conditioned by His own eternal nature. He has made 
Himself known as unchangable in character; if He is truth, 
He cannot be untruth; since He is God, He cannot be or become 
Satan. While in His creations, in His revelations, and in His 
laws, God has by no means exhausted His inner resources of 
omnipotence, He has * self-limited externally His activity by the 
privileges granted His creatures and by the prescribed modes of 
operation. He will not break His laws. He will not cancel 
the rights of creation nor the freedom of His creatures. Self- 
limitation is one of the greatest manifestations of God’s power. 
It is assuredly voluntary, in omnipotence. It is a high proof of 
mastery, of real command. Self-suspension of action is not self- 
renunciation. If God does not compel nor constrain his creatures, 
He nevertheless, sustains them all; “for in Him we live and 
move and have our being.” Nature also, is free but dependent 
upon God’s preservation. God is not the slave of omnipotence; 
He does not have to do all that He can, but He can do all that 
He wishes. He has power over His power, yea His limitation 
as well; we may not realize just how. There is no haste, display 
or excitement about His government, but GOD rules supreme; 
He overrules the outcome of evil, for eternity. 

By spiritual waft of His presence, God sweeps thru human 
consciousness, quickens impulse, arouses conscience, and lingers 

* Poet Laureate, Alfred Tennyson wrote,—“Free will (for man) 
was undoubtedly the main miracle, apparently an act of self¬ 
limitation by the Infinite, yet a revelation by Himself and of Him¬ 
self. (Robinson’s In Memoriam, p. 260). 



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among personal motives. He may confuse the plans of the 
wicked. He may manifestly encourage the activities of the 
righteous. The purpose of His will shall know no defeat. After 
the counsel of that will, the affairs of nations and individuals 
are fashioned by His coworkers. While the events of disorder 
and lawlessness may be held in contingency,* God, Himself, 
is above surprise and His aim beyond frustration. 

Man’s Vision is narrow. Yet the spiritual man,—the truly 
superman somehow knows “he cannot drift beyond God’s love 
and care”. Who can explain or fathom God’s omnipotence thru 
His love? Even if self-restrained in omniscience as regards per¬ 
haps the lawbreaker and his deeds, the Eternal Pilot does direct 
the craft as thru sky or over troubled ocean. Tho the system of 
the universe is infinitely complicated and immense, the Father’s 
guidance is discerned by spiritual insight; it is afforded in the 
career of individuals (few avail themselves of it); the Divine aim 
is gradually worked out for the nations; progress is realized for 
humanity under the rule of love. 

With some, is the philosophy of Pluralism in its theistic formf 
tending towards spirits many and the Spirit Almighty ? Starting 
with the certainty of self, William James first argued convincingly 
of a “Pluralistic Universe”. Each consciousness knowing itself, 
ascribes an inner spirit to other beings. The seeker struggles up 
from the self and non-self, of consciousness along with Others— 
the Many, to the Great One above. The doctrine of “the One 
and the Many” striving upward, may be suggestive as “broken 


* The moral wrongs would be God’s fault, if the late warring 
world with its cruelties had been foreordained and decreed by 
Him. Dr. Jas. Ward says: “God,. instead of being shut up in a 
closed and mechanized universe, lives amid the free play of vari¬ 
able character and contingent history; He assigns men talents 
but they use or misuse them. Is this a limitation of God’s fore¬ 
sight that He does not read all volitions that are to be? Yes, 
but it is a self-limitation, lending men a portion of His causa¬ 
tion, He is restrained from covering all with His omniscience.” 
Again: All is not decreed, that the total possibilities, however 
far back we go are fixed, but within these, however far forward 
we go, contingencies are open.” (Realm of Ends, p. 438 Cam¬ 
bridge Press.) 

f On Theistic Pluralism,-ibid, as above— “Realm of Ends, by 
Prof. Jas. Ward. Also “Meaning of God in Human Experience,” 
by Prof. Wm. E. Hocking, Yale University Press. 



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lights and fragments” of Divine process. Regress to “absolute 
origin” or the lower limit of pluralism is unattainable. Is the 
Supreme Spirit—the One, to be the unity of the Many or the 
end of the Other Spirits? The Being at the upper limit of plural¬ 
ism must be more than (primus inter pares) chief among equals; 
He must be the “primum movens” relating the two limits; even to 
us “the same God who worketh all things in all” if it be by 
“creative synthesis” and the “integrating process” of growth for 
the Many; is He not the Supreme Spirit “for whom are all 
things and thru whom are all things?” Modern thought is grop¬ 
ing after “ultimate reality” behind all appearances. Each in¬ 
dividual is seeking to preserve and improve self; the self makes 
gains by experience, thru adventure and misadventure, approxi¬ 
mating ever by trial and error. The monads of Leibnitz are 
typical but not exactly to be identified with the Many. The 
perfecting of the world by experiment, with the idea of sloughing 
off the evil and the conserving of the good, appears sound. De¬ 
velopment of civilization thru the social unity of humanity, 
working out a modus vivendi, creating new values , securing nobler 
ideals and higher unities might eventuate in a Republic of 
Righteousness wherein all would cooperate and none contend 
selfishly; might this inspire a spiritual temperament among the 
Many, so to banish national greed and vain glory as to end the 
possibility of all wars? This may well be the worthy yet far- 
off goal of the elements integrating in social growth even plural¬ 
istic evolution, that the Many may no longer conflict but attain 
to one realm of ends to be realized in harmony with God. Pro¬ 
fessor Ward, a most scholarly writer on pluralism says,— “As 
a consequence of the growing acceptance of the pluralistic stand¬ 
point, this admission of what is very inaccurately styled the 
doctrine of a finite God has become widely prevalent of late” 
and again “to object that God Himself can only be finite, and 
must be limited from without, because He cannot override eter¬ 
nal truths, is the merest sophistry”. This leads us to remark 
that the theory that self-determined God was restrained from 
averting the terrible evils of the World War by bad powers in 
the unseen realm seems visionary. 

Not all personal idealists take the possible step from the world* 
of spirits to the Great Spirit. A little pantheistically, Sir Oliver 


* “Science and Immortality” by Sir O. Lodge, p. 216 and 217. 



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Lodge says—“We are now beginning to realize a further stage in 
the process of atonement; we are rising to the conviction that we 
are a part of Nature, and so a part of God; that the whole crea¬ 
tion,—the One and the Many and the All-One is travailing to¬ 
gether towards some great end; and that now after ages of de¬ 
velopment, we have at length become conscious portions of the 
great scheme and can cooperate in it with knowledge and with 
joy. We are no aliens in a stranger universe, governed by an out¬ 
side God; we are all parts of a developing whole, all enfolded in 
an embracing and interpenetrating love, of which we too, some, 
times experience the joy too deep for words. . . . This vision, . . . 
of union with Divinity, ... is what science will some day tell us is 
the inner meaning of the redemption of man.” 

The immanent God, in the sublime poem of Job, is the power 
“in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit 
of all mankind.” For us this GOD is the support of nature, yea 
more, the very life of our lives, the Father omnipotent thru His 
love unto mankind; we can touch His arm in the dark and shall 
we not hold in the wanton wastes of war, that the out-reaching 
love of the All-Master has sustained many a sorrowing soul, in that 

“Spirit with spirit can meet, 

Closer is He than breathing, 

Nearer than hands and feet.” — Tennyson. 

Without antagonisms of differing faith, more spiritual cooperation 
among men, must be sought unto a widening progress of right¬ 
eousness that the conditions incident to inevitable wars may be 
removed and the true good will,— whatever is best —may prevail 
on earth. Only the deepening of the sense of God can bring the 
ONENESS of Humanity. 

God alone, makes for reality. Without Him, human endeavor 
would be vain and uninteresting. Indeed, God is the heart,—- 
the very core of the universe. He is incessantly active for good. 
Of Him, Jesus “who went about doing good” said, “My Father 
worketh even until now and I work. . . . The Son can do 
nothing of himself but what he seeth the Father doing: for what 
things soever He doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner. 

. . . and greater works than these will Fie show him, . . . .” God 
does not take sides as a partisan, but in whatsoever cause and 
by whomsoever, good is being wrought, there God is the real 


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partner, felt by the actual participants in the struggle, tho not 
seen. With evil minded workers (for such there are) even in 
just causes God has no part. He is the partner of individuals and 
of nations, only in righteousness; *the good are sharers in His 
reconstructive work. Patiently God labors on abiding the evolution 
of the ages. Out of new conditions and added facts, God is ever 
creating new meaning and increasing purpose for right. He elimi¬ 
nates evil and organizes all mind existing harmoniously, for His 
hosts in the spirit land. He is the creative Over-Lord toiling both 
directly and indirectly unto the perfecting of better worlds. God 
is the Eternal Creative Moral Purpose of the universe; He is the 
sublime ultimate Reality in all things. 

The sins of human slaughter came to Europe thru the pentup 
ugliness of a half-crazed nation whose military and Junker lords 
steeped it in war doctrine and terrorism (Schrecklichkeit) for 
more than forty years. “Woe unto the world because of occa¬ 
sions of stumbling! but woe unto that man thru whom the occa¬ 
sion cometh!” However, eternal penalties are not here con¬ 
sidered. In this world, God employs either disciplinary means 
or redemptive mercy but not physical omnipotence in dealing 
with sin. Pessimists have complained at not seeing special 
manifestations of wrath upon offenders. Suppose, God saw fit 
to inaugurate a reign of summary justice for every sin on earth? 
How many could abide the exact execution of Divine law? The 
Lord of All would be accounted not merely stern but a cruel 
absolute monarch; the complainants would be foremost to con¬ 
demn Him. Instead of this, by redemptive grace, mercy is offered 
to every sinner and the mature Father sendeth His rain upon the 
just and unjust alike. But God will not permit human civiliza¬ 
tion to suffer permanent injury. He has inspired instruments of 
discipline; He has chosen the defenders and champions of 
human society; He has sifted out the souls of men and of nations 
that wrong may meet defeat; world despotism doomed itself to 
ruin. The twin enemies of freedom,—the Prussian jack-boot 
and the Turkish yatagan have been called to account and repara¬ 
tion shall be rendered as far as possible; the “holy massacre” 
and forced exile of more than a million Armenians by the “un¬ 
speakable Turk” as well as the martyrdom of over five thousand 

* Woodrow Wilson has well said “God will show favor to the 
nations that rise to the heights of His justice and His righteous¬ 
ness.” 



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49 


unoffending Belgians, innocent French civilians, thousands of un¬ 
happy Serbs, Poles and Roumanians by the Teutons shall be 
expiated. By prevision the just Master guides in the demand for 
vindication; whatever God is directing, shall be well done. Re¬ 
member “Our God is a consuming fire.” His is the “wrath of the 
Lamb”: we know not the way He taketh. History records that 
the British frightened the Spanish Armada by burning hulls at 
night; they weighed anchor. “Then God blew upon them and 
they were scattered.” God’s agents must be just and honorable; 
they must be loyal and true to Him, then right is mighty and 
good shall be the issue of evil. 

Have courage, toilers! Right shall gain “the day” 

Tho by man’s evil, God should be delayed; 

Slowly, thru rocks, truth’s waters wear their way, 

Years but reveal, the Master’s will unswayed. —Cowles. 


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CHAPTER VI. 

by idejabs oe 1 worud-wide; righte:ousne;ss. 

A statue representing the city of Strasbourg stands in the 
beautiful Place de la Concorde in the throbbing heart of Paris 
across the parade from the city of Lille statue. Between these 
two statues which were suitably decorated for the occasion, 
marched on Independence Day (1918), detachments of the Ameri¬ 
can expeditionary war forces in France. Both of these colossal 
stone statues by Pradier, present to the world the crying wrongs 
of military conquest. The statue of Strasbourg used to be 
hung annually with mourning garlands and crape in reference 
to the German occupation of Alsace-Lorraine and bears the 
significant inscription,— 

Lost—1871 

Regained—(?)—Now reads 1918.* 

The assignment of Alsace to Germany to settle in part the de¬ 
mands of the Franco-Prussian war commemorates an injustice 
of more than forty years standing. Most vigorously did the 
inhabitants of Alsace protest the obnoxious transfer and were 
only kept in submission by a continual threat of arms, for tho 
largely Germanized, the sundered province has remained bitterly 
opposed to the harsh Prussianized government. The Zabern 
incident of insult to civilians by the German military supported 
by the Emperor was but a sample of the distressing friction which 
often occurred. Wherein can justice or right be seen for a people 
handed over without their consent to be subjected to military 
rule under conquering tyrants? This wrong is set right. 

In the European annals of worst aggressions among nations, 
none surpasses thru briberies, treacheries and intrigues the three 
partitions and the final dismembermeiLt of Poland. Foremost 
among the imperial robbers was Catherine II of Russia who by 
conniving with Frederick the Great of Prussia and by gaining the 
approval of Maria Theresa of Austria, secured for each a share 


* The date of the Armistice, by retro-active provision of the 
Versailles treaty. 






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of Poland’s territory by what is known as the first partition in 
1772. By a diet in session at Warsaw for several years the con¬ 
stitution of a republic (1791) was formulated and practically 
approved, only to be rejected by a treasonable conspiracy of 
Polish nobles with Catherine which resulted in 1793 as a second 
partition of lands to Prussia and to Russia. Under the leader¬ 
ship of the patriot Kosciusko, the Poles made a determined at¬ 
tempt at revolt which was put down by the three powers in a 
short and bloody conflict whereby in 1795 the unhappy nation 
was completely conquered and a third partition and final dis¬ 
memberment of Poland was afforded to the three victorious em¬ 
pires. Religious differences and dynastic succession made favor¬ 
able conditions for Poland’s downfall. The talented but un- 
scruplous Catherine (a German princess) having practically 
usurped the Russian throne of her weak husband, had no hesita¬ 
tion in scheming the appropriation of a country which she quite 
contemptously called her western “door mat”. The Polish people 
have multiplied rapidly in spite of oppression. They have been 
sternly held down in German Poland where it has been a crime for 
little children to say their prayers in the Polish language. War¬ 
fare, devastation and starvation have in these crucial times be¬ 
fallen the people of Poland. If the Poles all unite for self-gov¬ 
ernment their Republic will live. 

“Thru all the long dark night of years, 

The peoples’ cry ascendeth, 

And earth is wet with blood and tears, 

But our weak sufferance endeth; 

The few shall not forever sway 
The many moil in sorrow, 

The powers of hell are strong to-day, 

But Christ shall rise to-morrow. 

* * * * 

Tho hearts brood o’er the past, our eyes 
With smiling futures glisten! 

For lo! where day bursts up the skies 
Lean out your souls and listen! 

The world is rolling Freedom’s way, 

And ripening with her sorrow, 

Take heart! Who bears the cross to-day 

Shall wear the crown to-morrow.” —Massey. 


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How shall the false ideals of nations be cured? The ideal of 
Righteousness shall be made world-wide. It shall be realized 
thru experience that “Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin 
is a reproach to peoples”. The war fallacies thru nurture of 
nations shall in time be overcome. Ideals are concerned with the 
progress of truth. The warlike France of Napoleon Boneparte 
who was defeated in 1815, is the free republic of Europe to-day. 
Ripening thru much sorrow, France came to the joy of freedom 
in her third republic. May she not court calamity by self-seeking! 

The much heralded political ideal for peace is the League of 
Nations. France entreated America for a “plan of a League of 
Nations that will work.” With the Court of Justice established 
and judges appointed to arbitrate disputes, this forward-looking 
movement under the guidance of Christian principles should allay 
strife. To the Court of Nations belongs the promulgation of ap¬ 
proved and codified international laws. As yet the Nations are 
not ready to hazard complete disarmament. The enforcement of 
international laws is dependent upon general public opinion 
Without the people behind it the League cannot succeed. Said M. 
Clemenceau at the outset: “The soul of a Society of Nations 
must first be established in the hearts of mankind to prove ef¬ 
fective and fruitful.” 

The spirit of reconciliation moves upon the heart of the na¬ 
tions. Two events of stupendous significance invade the realm of 
world ideals. 

First, after a seven hundred year struggle, enter the Irish Free 
State now given an opportunity for its own self-development.” 
Will some standing problem of the Emerald Isle ever impend? 
A Celtic thinker says: “There’ll always be an Irish question.” 

Second, witness a voluntary agreement * of mighty nations de¬ 
finitely to reduce for a time their panoplies of war and to ar¬ 
bitrate by Committee of Governments certain grave questions of 
international difference. Should it prevail by League or Society 
of Nations, suffering humanity implores: “Let us have peace” 


* The Harding-Coolidge administration has given proof of 
sympathetic cooperation in practical world ideals. Voluntary 
association of right minded nations can impose peace on earth. 
The naval holiday and reduced armaments will lessen taxation on 
the burdened peoples. 



the; conquering horseman 


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whether on a *naval ratio of 5-5-3-1.75 or what not; “anyhow 
we want a warless world.” The slogan is “NO MORE WAR.” 

With little consideration for reasons, whenever the church 
follows the drum” many pacifists discount its religion as hollow 
mockery; failing to distinguish the difference between militarism 
and militancy, they propose to submit to war without attempt 
at defence or vindication of the right against aggressors. Above 
all, here, we are concerned with the fallacy in warlike religion. 

No matter how devotional or mystical any religion may be, 
without conscience, it is void; weighed in the balance, it is want¬ 
ing. The essential element of salvation, both individual and 
national, is the “inquiry of a good conscience after God.” There¬ 
by is the kingship of right revealed. The “conscience of God” 
is felt in the calls of duty, truth and honor. To do the known 
(luty and tell the truth unto the honor of God, is the highest ideal 
conduct for man. Greater than “safety for democracy”, 
liberty or sacrifice, even justice or fraternity among men is inner 
righteousness. Those men and nations that do works of right¬ 
eousness are God born and heaven directed. The all-inclusive 
redemptive power of blood stained earth is soul tried righteous¬ 
ness wherein alone, resides the moral quality of each human virtue. 
Without righteousness of cause, patriotism and service may be 
vain, liberty may only commit crimes, human justice may be 
perverted to evil. When the foundations of civilization are at¬ 
tacked, the knights of the aristocracy of God go forth to roll the 
world along its radiant way towards holiness; these best ones 
are moving forward and upward to keep abreast of right; in the 
evolutionary process, we see exemplified “right” or 

“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne; 
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown, 
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His 
own.” 

God is not afar off. He has not deserted His world. Amidst 
the lip service of the many and the life devotion of the 
few, the public conscience unerringly reflects the actual relation¬ 
ship of society to the Divine standard of conscience. The rising 

* Capital ship tonnage and naval strength agreed, (ratio on the 
basis of 525,000 tons) : G. B. & U. S. A.,—5 or 100% each; Japan,— 
3 or 60% ; France & Italy,—1.75 or 35 per cent each. Secretary 
Hughes halted naval building at the date of the Washington Con¬ 
ference. The Hughes plan is indeed “unique in history”. 



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up of a band of men whose hearts the Lord has touched—men 
filled with moral stamina—at a crisis in any generation, is proof 
that the “conscience of God” is at work in the world. These 
valiant knights of another spirit are Divine instruments to bring 
forth blessings to humanity. God shares their struggles; the 
tragedy of their hardships and sufferings belong to Him. By 
such leaders the Divine ideals are ever proclaimed to humanity. 
Public opinion is shaped, clarified and purified by their presenta¬ 
tion of truth. Mankind will be reminded that they should have 
a care to their best interests; that they be not satisfied with the 
baser achievements of life; that the righteous imperative should 
supplant fist-power; that patriotism must supercede tribalism; 
that the State cannot subjugate and emasculate true religion; 
that the progress of civilization shall not be checked by martial 
efficiency; that a love for humanity must surpass acute national¬ 
ism; that international relations must subordinate the nations to 
the good of the human race; that righteousness, bom of conscience 
is eternal and must attain world supremacy. Then and not till 
then, can Humanity obtain from their rulers that greater charter 
of freedom which knows no bounds except the rights of others 
and no limits except conscience and personal morality—that free¬ 
dom of truth merging into love, thru the brotherhood of all races, 
nations and tongues under the increasing Fatherhood of God 
the Conquering Master of All. Thus, above a League of Na¬ 
tions— “Free Humanity” shall grow —uniting and harmonizing 
all discords of various elements and peoples—the glorious ideal 
of a Republic of Righteousness or the perfected “Kingdom of 
the SON of His LOVE.” 

Looking unto the cultivation of this “Free Humanity” on earth 
a world-wide propaganda of lasting peace and righteousness should 
be undertaken by the federated forces of all moral faiths. It 
is doubtless the opportunity of the cooperating churches but 
should be as broad as the good citizenship of all nations. No 
peace can be guaranteed permanent until founded upon the free 
will of free peoples; no righteousness is assured unless based 
upon the principles of intellectual honesty, justice and conscience. 
In other words, dame “secret diplomacy” of the governments 
must be divorced; fairness and honor shall plight the troth of 
the enlinked liberty lovers of all climes. By common consent, 
the right to commit acknowledged wrongs must be surrendered. 
The fundamental principles of enlightened civilization should 


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receive new emphasis. The majority law—the greatest good of 
the greatest number of earth—should prevail. Because uniting 
for common interests citizens of all countries on the globe, it 
might well be a world Republic; since it contemplates primarily 
exponents of human goodness, it may involve to the highest 
degree—Righteousness. The world-wide ideal simply stated and 
easily understood would be a Republic of Righteousness. 

The Republic* suggested is not a political dream of world gov¬ 
ernment like Plato’s Republic or Dante’s and More’s Utopia but 
rather a spiritual movemont seeking the “Perpetual peace” 
about which Immanuel Kant philosophized. It would actively 
proclaim among men truth and justice. Such a commonwealth 
of conscience proposes no impractical highfalutinism. It con¬ 
templates a movement for systematic education in moral up¬ 
rightness ; it should be a self-supporting propaganda—a campaign! 
of soul stirring lectures —thru schools, churches, bureaus, lodges 
and friendly organizations. The press of the nations will readily 
urge on any such sustained effort, when once launched. To do 
its work this organized movement must be systematic and con¬ 
tinuous, enlisting the best talents of logic, eloquence and plat¬ 
form power; it should have wise leadership, and liberal views 
upon non-essentials. The aim should be union for “lasting peace 
and righteousness”. The methods of management may be after 
the saner modes of women’s suffrage and the leagues for tem¬ 
perance; the simpler the machinery of agitation and moral en¬ 
listment, the better; only let it call out and bind together the 
good elements of the races. The union of all peoples of noble 
principles is the greatest hope of the ages; it need not interfere 
with political relations or religious tenets of world’s humanity; 
it would germinate growing tides of enthusiasm for right. God 
is interested in the whole of mankind. He chooses to uplift men 


* “Plato wrote his Republic after the heartbreaking tragedies 
of the Peloponnesian War. Is it too much to expect that out of 
the horrors of this world conflict another and a greater Republic 
will shape itself for the finer, more enduring guidance of men?” 
Prof. Overstreet. Ideals of America, p. 290. McClurg, Chicago. 

t One High Commissioner of the British Government said 
lately: “You ought to have a thousand men preaching this doc¬ 
trine of international friendship at once, for there is a little re¬ 
spite now and this is your chance. Either carry this ideal thru- 
out the world or war will break out again.”—To a-round-the 
world-speaker, Christian Work, N. Y. (1922). 



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by their own cooperative ministry; He wants them to love one 
another. “He hath made of one ,every nation of men for to 
dwell on the face of the earth.” He has no favorites. “Of a 
truth, God is no respecter of persons but in every nation, he 
that feareth Him and worketh righteousness is acceptable to 
Him.” The test of present and eternal judgment is righteous¬ 
ness of living. Righteousness in action cultivates spiritual love 
which is the outcome of choice of the will. Internationalism 
pleads for tolerance. Intersectarianism argues for unity of 
faith. The fragments of righteousness are federating. Every 
thing is slowly tending to the realization of the world-wide ideal 
of a spiritual alliance—the Republic of Righteousness on earth. 

“However,” remarks Mr. Church, “who shall determine what 
is righteousness?” Promptly replies Mr. Wiser, “In the light 
of reason, your conscience which is self-acting in the realm of 
morals, will indicate.” “No matter for that” says Church, “re¬ 
ligion’s standards must be consulted as ultimate.” “Defining 
your statement a little, we agree” admits Wiser, “that Sacred 
Literature properly interpreted, furnishes the noblest ideals and 
thereby may shape conduct in life.” “Yet,” asserts Church, “the 
highest ideal is not what but who,—Christ the Revealer of God, 
portrayed in the fourfold gospel is the true standard. He is 
highest because from the Eternal Father. He is true because 
His reported words and works are proven. He is ultimate because 
He reveals the principles of the Living God and has demonstrated 
His all-love and goodness to men.” 

“How can you substantiate such claims?” demands Wiser. 
“My answer shall be only a brief outline of a long proof,” says 
Church, “God’s repeated promise to Abraham is fulfilled in Christ, 
—the Messiah. That promise ever kept an Ideal of Righteous¬ 
ness before the Jewish race; many times was it reemphasized 
by word and event, especially at Sinai, in Calvary, and at Pente¬ 
cost. Christ, himself announced His Messiahship and by his 
teachings promulgated new spiritual ideals. Among the many, 
—“And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you 
free.” To his judge haughty Pilate, the Christ explained that 
He “came to bear witness to the truth” and added an appeal to 
conscience—“Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.” 
Pilate was convinced of Christ’s innocence but feared the Jewish 
leaders. With the sarcastic bitterness of unbelief, the Roman 
governor murmured, “What is truth?” A few moments later. 



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after the scourging by the soldiers, wearing the crown of thorns 
and the purple robe, His pale visage all splotched with blood yet 
with the dignity of perfect calm, the MASTER was thrust forth 
by Pilate to the view of the frenzied mob below, as the supreme 
answer of the ages to TRUTH. “Ecce homo,” pointed the 
Roman. “What is Truth?”—“Behold the Man,”—The Christ, 
who prayed for his cruel executioners, “Father, forgive them for 
they know not what they do”—He, the noblest ideal of all,— 
“The King in His beauty of the very far off land.” “Truly, 
this was the Son of God” said the watching centurion, at the 
crucifixion. 

“Your appeal for the Christ is eloquent indeed,” rejoins Wiser. 
“But understand, this story of Jesus simmered a long time in many 
minds before it took the form of the four gospels; traditions 
orally transmitted and personal ideas of the writers color the 
account. Higher critics insist on the Quelle (Q) or Source of 
the recorded Sayings of Jesus and that the Marcan gospel was 
first put together and so became the basis of the later Synoptists. 
The dignifying not to say deifying of a Sacred Hero in a body of 
Sacred Literature for the worship of a Sacred Assembly on a 
Sacred Day is the usual method of priest-craft among the nations. 
Liberal thought says, away with hero-worship and all sacerdotal- 
ism.” 

With a laugh, Church responds: “Really Wiser, would you 
be a propagandist for higher criticism and unfounded theories 
as to the Bible? Has Q been established as a fact? Have you 
ever heard of its discovery and publication? On the other hand, 
it must be admitted that Jesus Christ was the greatest spiritual 
force ever known to the world; that altho He never wrote except 
in the sand, yet by oral teaching in Aramaic, sometimes in Greek 
discourse doubtless, He propounded a new ethical system; that 
He set forth original truth in plain terms of His day chiefly by 
parables; that by an unselfish life and by His sacrificial death, 
He made as a historic character a lasting impression on the 
world; that the Christ at no time, posed as world heroes do; 
that there certainly is a content of living truth in His teaching, 
however transmitted and whatever its form; that He founded 
a successful institution—the Church—the aim of which is re¬ 
demption for man; that He and the Book which His gospels 
complete, gave to humanity the grandest ideas, yea, rather the 
noblest of ideals ever proclaimed on earth.” 


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“Let me frankly say,” resumes Wiser, that the creeds and the 
literalism of the churches is oppressive to my standards of truth 
and that I prefer to seek elsewhere for freedom in spiritual 
thought. Is there no way the churches can be liberalized for 
broader usefulness in the world? When will the churches put 
away selfish creed lines and forgetting denominationalism seek 
the best good of mankind generally? Just as a propaganda in 
Germany prepared the way for the Great War and a propaganda 
against the Liquor Traffic in America secured the eighteenth 
constitutional amendment of our country, so a world propaganda 
for lasting peace and righteousness steadily maintained among 
men, can abolish forever WARS and ensure brighter conditions 
for the future. Class differences should be arbitrated; humanity 
cannot afford to quarrel during the brief period of earthly sojourn; 
PEACE should be made permanent. Out of a political League of 
Nations should emerge for safety—A spiritual Republic of Right¬ 
eousness. I am for the proclamation of such ideals in the most 
practical way. 

The religious faith of the future will have to be liberal and 
scientific if Biblical, also unified and societal if applicable to the 
problems of the classes and hoy poll 03 ^ of earth. Have the 
churches any system of reaching the masses?” 

“May I reply by asking, can you suggest any method of reach¬ 
ing humankind generally,” said Mr. Church, “Besides, credit 
ought to be given in all fairness where due: The ousting of the 
saloon institution began as an activity in the churches, even if 
business men at last took up the issue, church workers largely 
paid the bills of the propaganda. Those broad ideals as you 
admit, had their rise in Scriptural sources. Centuries ago, the 
Hebrew prophet declared: ‘And what doth the Lord require of 
thee, but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with 
thy God.’ While the apostle wrote: ‘Whatsoever things are true, 
whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, what 
soever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever 
things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be 
any praise, THINK on THESE THINGS.’ Again, Christ em¬ 
phasized the Divine supremacy: ‘Is it not for this cause that ye 
err, that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?’ Fur¬ 
ther, on another point: ‘With men it is impossible, but not with 
God: for all things are possible with God.’ While lastly, love is 
shown to be the fulfilling of the law and gospel. Certainly in 


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interpretation: “the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life!” 

“The ideal which probes the conscience of the universe,” answers 
Wiser, “is What is right.” Mankind is swayed by its view 
point of thinking; bring it into the sweep of “the trade winds 
of right.” To establish right ideals, not only churches, but 
the schools and all community centres should receive com¬ 
petent lecturers; literature must be disseminated in all lang¬ 
uages; principles of truth, goodwill and the golden rule must 
resume sway in human hearts; the movement must be world¬ 
wide and persistent. A United States of Europe (in spirit) must 
be sought. Then a United States of the world is possible; and 
Mr. Church—shall we agree that instead of a balance of power 
being maintained politically, there should come to the nations 
of earth a Concert of Power thru the union of all for the best 
good of humanity in the cordial temper at least, of a vast Re¬ 
public of Righteousness and that this discussion may hopefully 
conclude in the words of Robert Burns:” 

“It’s coming vet. for a’that, 

That man to man, the warld o’er, 

Shall brothers be for a’that.”* 

Doing righteousness actualizes the loftiest ideals; it is the 
positive note of every God begotten character. 

* Till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the 
knowledge of the Son of God, .... unto the measure of the 
stature of the fulness of Christ. Vide—Eph. 4:13. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

BY VIRTUE OE HIS EAWS AND HIS EOVE. 

Divine law constitutes a partial expression of the will and holy 
nature of God. But behind the law is God’s secret purpose and 
the aspects of His personality in love and in kindness. Probably 
to human intelligence a complete understanding of the Supreme 
will and character is impossible. However, God’s general yet 
not exhaustive ordinances, with his word of truth—the perfect 
law of liberty, are sufficiently revealed to mankind to point the 
way to harmony with Him. God reigns thru His laws and His 
love; He is King Eternal of Cosmos which is His orderly system 
of the universe. 

Long before the days of President Lincoln’s Emancipation 
Proclamation, a northern gentleman stood one bright morning 
with his southern host overlooking the negro quarters of a Georgia 
plantation, and watched the marshalling of the slaves by the 
overseers to their work in the cotton fields. At the head of one 
column of the lines, in marked contrast to the abject slouch and 
careless dejection of the other slaves, marched a splendid black 
fellow, finely upstanding, perfect in figure like a statue cut in 
ebony. Said the northerner, “Who is yonder file leader, march¬ 
ing so grandly at the head of his column?” Quickly replied the 
southern host, “that, sir, is a prince of royal blood,—the son of 
an African king, and he never forgets it.” Alas, men forget too 
often their high lineage—that they are sons of the Heavenly 
King. 

Instead of marching to the music of heaven, men in careless 
dejection of sin’s slavery, break the line—the known laws of the 
natural, moral and spiritual realm and somehow expect God to 
condone their misbehavior and grant to them the heritage of 
sons now and eternally. In a most practical sense, if the follow¬ 
ing laws of the Conquering Master be disregarded, men must 
endure the disagreeable consequences; these common laws are 
merely illustrative. Under God, man is the master of his own 
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Is dependent; observance and obedience insure well-being. So 
men should know: 

1 st. The physical laws upon which health depends. 

2 nd. The moral laws upon which happiness depends. 

3rd. The intellectual laws on which the acquisition of knowl¬ 
edge depends. 

4th. The social laws upon which national advancement 
depends. 

5th. The economic laws on which wealth depends. 

6 th. The natural laws upon which uniformity of seasons, etc. 
depend. 

7th. The spiritual laws upon which man’s destiny depends. 

To break an important physical law means dis-ease to the bod}'. 
To dishonor moral obligation brings anxious care to the soul. 
If man sins, he must suffer and others may suffer vicariously 
with him. By squandering his income and funds lavishly, the 
prodigal comes to poverty. Setting at naught, moral and national 
laws, a traitor, Benedict Arnold, pitifully dies without hope eter¬ 
nal in a London attic. Putting God, the soul, and the judgment 
out of his thoughts, an Aaron Burr came to face present ignominy 
and the doom of the world to come. We are coordinated to two 
worlds; Divine laws will be justified in part here and in full here¬ 
after. Many consign themselves to sufferings in both worlds. 
Therefore sons of the King, know and observe the privileges of 
your birthright, “look up and lift up your heads, because your 
redemption draweth nigh.” Law is the master or tutor helping 
to bring us into Divine harmony. 

In His universe, God not only reigns but governs; not as human 
officials rule ofttimes unjustly and shortsightedly but Divine 
authority is administered majestically and with boundless vision. 
By second causes and laws, the very outcome of men’s wickedness 
is turned to events of good; the means and methods of His govern¬ 
ment cannot be perfectly understood, only imperfectly indicated. 
God did not inspire, nor interfere with the hatred and envy of 
Joseph’s brethern but the final result of safety for a chosen race 
evinced omnipotent guidance; “Fear not, for I am in the place 
of God?” said Joseph: “And as for you, ye meant evil against 
me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, 
to save much people alive.” It is being more and more dis- 


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closed that the voice of Divine laws both natural and moral 
is the harmony of earth: the necessity is to hear and heed the 
voice. Since God governs the material and moral world by laws, 
it follows that man should neither break nor misapply but rather 
wisely use what law he can discover. God makes the conditions 
and gives the opportunities, while men are freely responsible for 
use of the conditions and the improvement of their lives. It is im¬ 
perative early that care should be taken to prevent the body from 
falling into bad habits both from poisons introduced and from 
irregularities within. Even tho God is the author of natural 
laws and physical forces and can therefore act independently of 
them, it is nevertheless true that He seldom sets aside the law 
or disregards His forces; He rather employs the reign of forces 
and law to the accomplishment of far off and greater ends. 

To a certain extent the race has lost its point of reckoning thru 
the growth of Egoism—we have become man centered instead of 
God centered: is man’s welfare paramount to God’s worship? 
In our almost excessive humanitarianism and materialism, shall 
the Father merely act man’s pleasure or shall man serve God? 
Is the heavenly Ruler only a valuable asset and the chief banker 
of a spendthrift world? If the World War arose from national 
assertiveness and grasping materialism, shall moral lenitives and 
humanistic opiates allay permanently the passions of selfish hearts 
in classes and among the nations? How about promoting the 
holiness or wholeness of God and seeking to hallow the Father’s 
name on the earth? Of old, it was said that human obedience 
is better than sacrifice and loving service than silver and gold. 
In other words, the supreme law of love promulgated by God is 
to be sought, to change effectually the spirit of men’s minds; the 
reign is that of love. 

God’s relation to His forces and laws is much like that of the 
chemist to his instruments and substances at his cabinet in the 
laboratory. He uses them all to an end in view. The chemicals 
must each be put in due proportion into retorts; be subjected to 
exact operations; be transformed by mixture and admixture; 
be colored and transfused by changing elements, until at last 
perchance into the saturated solution is dropt a tiny crystal 
which summons to itself multitudes of scattered molecules and 
changes the bubbling liquid presently into a mass of solids; every¬ 
thing has been done according to the directions of the chief chem¬ 
ist and the principles of chemical affinity. So the Master mind 


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and hand wisely guides each changing event in His universe and 
by varying combinations of forces produces ever different results 
or by stable law may perpetuate the uniformity of nature ac¬ 
cording to the purpose of His will. Upon the metaphysical side, 
we may consider ^energy, matter, and life which attains its highest 
development in mind, the different manifestations or distinct 
modes of working of the One Great Source of all things. Ignor¬ 
ing the side of the physical sciences which are contributing every 
year some new facts of inestimable value, matter, mind and 
energy are the cardinal elements thru which the Being who 
“fills heaven and earth” not only expresses Himself but also 
worketh wonderful control towards the furtherance of His pur¬ 
pose. God rules creation by laws: whether in macrocosm or 
microcosm, the conquering hand of the Eternal may be seen. 

The universe can only rightly be apprehended as a growing and 
developing cosmos. The pains of growth seem to be physical 
evils. So for this evolving world and for the progress of rational 
beings, such evils are not superfluous, indeed may be necessary 
to promote human attainment. The ideal man who would in¬ 
crease knowledge and character most rapidly, secures develop¬ 
ment thru conflict with nature. “In the sweat of thy face shalt 
thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground” and nature 
cursed in correlation with man furnishes him the upward struggle 
against an hostile environment; ignorance and weakness as well 
as sin must be overcome; sometimes habit and custom must be 
rudely shaken and the evil is really for good; therefore Divine 
calamities of earthquakes and volcanoes, disasters of droughts, 
of floods and of cyclones -are doubtless incentives to greater 
wisdom. Men must learn more, discover new laws and be better 
prepared to meet these evils. Professor Le Conte theorizes 
interestingly in part: “Evil is therefore, the necessary spur that 
goads us on to increase of knowledge. We are but foolish little- 
children at school. Nature our schoolmistress, chastizes us 

relentlessly until we get our lessons.It is evident that 

perfect knowledge of the laws of nature would remove every 
physical evil.” 

Before man’s disobedience, Hegel says, “Paradise (ein Park 

* Dr. Rougier on “abandoning ether.” advocates “the ma¬ 
terialization of Energy” as the (physical) origin of matter and 
radiation, (p. 152 Philosophy of the New Science Tr. from French 
by Masius, P. Blakiston’s Sons, Phila.). Is matter then a con¬ 
densation and solidification of energy? Is matter the “ashes of 
sunlight”? 




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fur Thiere) was merely a park for beasts. By man’s self-asser¬ 
tion, the ignorant innocence of the brute was exchanged for the 
godlike “knowing of good and evil.” Perhaps, self-preservation 
develops selfishness. Moral evil is doubtless rooted in selfish¬ 
ness. God consciousness followed the new personal self-cons¬ 
ciousness. Conscience, as already seen (Chapter II) is found 
in the “stream of consciousness” or “citadel of self”. Herewith 
is maturely known moral accountability to the Creator. The 
principles of justice and laws of righteousness were gradually re¬ 
vealed to man; from century to century, much advancement in 
truth is apparent. The prophets and judges given the chosen 
people, were spokesmen for God; on behalf of the Divine Ruler, 
they proclaimed His messages of spiritual growth. God taught 
His people thru experience and object lessons; the essential aim 
was always to influence them to better conduct in life. Often 
by hard pathways of discipline, they were guided to pursue the 
loftier ideals onward and upward. Greek culture, language and 
philosophy with Roman law and highways, prepared the world 
for the revelation thru Christ of the unapproachable Father. 
By oracles, temples, altars, humanity was reaching upwards to¬ 
ward God. Spiritually minded “seekers after God” knew Him 
as an inner voice (6 oat^wv). The mightiest law was made 
evident to earth that there must be JUSTICE and equal RETRI¬ 
BUTION meted out somewhere and sometime. Man felt his 
inadequacy and unworthiness; somehow sanctions of the LAW 
would be visited upon each soul at last. Could God be just and 
not punish a man for sin? Was there any way man could “get 
off” or be “let off”? Conscience and moral reason said “no”. 
An inexorably just universe proclaimed “what a man sows, he 
shall reap,” spiritually as well as physically. Nature along with 
morality claimed evenhanded justice for all. Who could inter¬ 
fere with the reign of law? Was there some other way to jus¬ 
tice? In mercy, could the lawmaker sacrifice himself to his 
law? Then could pardon be offered to a lawbreaker? Only a 
Supreme Ruler could interpose the eternal sacrifice, “a Son, 
perfected forevermore” as the “Lamb slain from the foundation 
of the world”. “When the fulness of the time came, God sent 
forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that he might 
redeem them which were under the law” unto the “adoption of 
sons”. The requirement of justice was satisfied,—“Him who 
knew no sin, He made to be sin on our behalf, that we might 


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become the righteousnes of God in Him.” The redemption of 
the world by Christ carried out the purpose of the creation of the 
universe for Christ. In conformity with the Divine nature, 
Christ acted in total submission to all laws of the universe, which 
is but another expression for the will of God. The Master, Him¬ 
self, testifies,—“Lo, I am come to do thy will, O God.” The 
moral at-one-ment of man always displays vicarious suffering, not 
alone in the blood shed on Calvary’s cross but infinitely more 
because therein God realized the foul hideousness of sin in His 
own soul and took up the sin to consume it by the fires of Supreme 
love. Christ came as the unveiling of what God is and the 
spiritual harbinger of what man shall attain,—even indwelling 
Divine fulness. Religion is the love of righteous living and prac¬ 
tical activity for God. The reign of God within the soul and all 
souls within whom God reigns constitute the moral order of which 
the aim is the final triumph of righteousness. 

“Hereby know we the love (supreme) because He laid down 
His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the 
brethren”. The Master shall conquer as “God is love” hence His 
rule while just and justifiable is the domination of mercy and 
pity. 

Goodness, love and beauty are the natural manifestation 
(glory) of the Divine personality. According to the uplifting 
experience of Moses, God graciously revealed Himself and ex¬ 
pressed His beauty in mercy. “Man shall not see Me and live” 
but behold, there is “a place by me”, in the cleft of the rock 
“I will cover the.” “I will make all my gpodness pass before 
thee” Beauty is to be apprehended with God’s vision; love 
finds highest expression as God loves; greatness appears in the 
display of God’s goodness; finite examples are not wanting in 
times of bloody sacrifice. 

“Belgium in War Time” describes the “model king” as in a 
sad scene, Albert I. stood with head bared and reverently bowed 
above the flower decked new made grave of a subordinate army 
officer, who died bravely fightly for his country and who unmind¬ 
ful of family shouted with his expiring breath, “Vive le Roi, 
Vive la Belgique.” By defending the treaty of neutrality , the 
Belgians raised their nation to the dignity of a great power; one 
of the middle class has said: “We Belgians did not think we 
could have behaved so well; we couid not expect to resist success¬ 
fully the German war machine. But God sent us a great leader 


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in King Albert I; he made of our farmers and tradesmen a nation 
of heroes. After the war, King Albert will reign over a broken 
and very poor people, but he will be one of the greatest and best 
loved rulers in the world.” Because the Belgians recognize in 
their king, his wife and children, mutual service, fellow suffer¬ 
ings and sacrifice, the soul of honor, justice and truth amidst 
the late atrocious woes of Belgium, they deeply love Albert the 
First, the great King of the Belgians and Elizabeth the noble 
Queen. Even more than these human rulers, our great God—the 
Christ who experienced severest loss for us, with us and now 
agonizes in us for a sinning world, claims our deepest love and 
worship. Should we not reverence the Saviour, who by self 
humiliation unto manhood did thereby counteract man’s upreach 
to Godhood thru self-assertion? Divine love for us is all-com¬ 
pelling,— with our comrade in white in conquest: 

“We may not stay to see the day 
When the great Saviour shall bear sway, 

And all creation glitter in the ray 
That cometh from above; 

But come it fast or come it slow, 

‘Twill come at last, we surely know, 

And heaven and earth shall feel the glow 
And men shall call it love.” 

The physical or first creation eventuated in human depravity. 
The Creator might well have wiped out the race in the midst 
of their environment and started afresh but disclosed His omni¬ 
potence rather, in effectual redemption thru love. Redemption 
completed shall be the transformation of the material into the 
spiritual supremacy. Is this the culminating process of the 
Christian age? The doctrine is that the spiritual shall supercede 
the natural at last. The corruptions of the natural and fleshly 
shall be done away. So powerful is eternal love that it shall 
overcome all evil. Herein is surpassing evidence not only of 
God’s love but also of His almightiness. Men feel God’s love in 
the spiritual heredity of the new creation. 

But it is not enough to know that God is love. Chiefly because 
holy, supreme love is omnipotent. In His beloved Son, God 
justified His name in righteousness. “The great last word of 
power is God’s deed—the cross. There, Father, Son and Spirit 


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carried the load which otherwise would crush the world.” 

God hates cruelty and by the sacrifices of love subdues it. In 
His love, almightiness appears. The cross is the red seal of omni¬ 
potence. Herein thru the Spirit, a continuing struggle extends 
mercy to the erring. Christ stood upon the earth the moral 
vindicator of sinners. Holy love is realized in the crucified 
Christ whose voluntary sacrifice hallowed the name of the Father. 
With what anguish and unmeasurable sufferings, Jesus went to 
Calvary bearing upon his heart the enormous burden of human 
debauchery and savagery which actually broke it. In spite of the 
murder of the Godhead in the person of Christ, man’s worst evils 
were eclipsed by the tremendous victory morally which illuminates 
that darkness with words of light—“I have overcome the world”. 
Divine love in atonement shall conquer every foe. “Neither 
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor 
things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor 
any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of 
God (manward) which is (displayed) in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Should there arise a new universe and old scenes pass away, 
Jesus “Christ is the Son of God’s love with power”. Without 
force, as men use it, He shall arrange all things in order of sub¬ 
ordination (uTCO-Tajaw) and vanquish the enemies of Divine 
government by the supremacy of holy love; mighty thru love, 
the reign of God shall at last hold sway as now, by the activity 
of His agents. 

In addition to the work of the denominations and established 
churches of Christ, also of the religious colleges, the principles 
of a universal commonwealth of righteousness are being spiritual¬ 
ly wrought out in society, by various special agencies. Organized 
associations of Young Men and of Young Women, with Clubs 
among both boys and girls, steadily disseminate ideas of duty, 
loyalty, devotion, and Divine authority. Strong fomentation 
in the body politic among leading nations is blessing women 
with equal suffrage privileges. Even Germany has put equal 
suffrage into her new constitution. The systematic campaign 
of education as a formulated propaganda against the saloon, the 
brewery and distillery, also brothel haunts is nearing greater 
triumphs in world outlawry of such crime-breeders. The Red 
Cross—first aid to the injured—has demonstrated its distinguished 
mission in alleviating the sufferings of war tom humanity. We 
hail the Salvation Army and the Volunteers that they can descend 


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to the depths of depravity and bring the “wonderous story” to 
the slums of the great cities of the earth. Never was the world’s 
need of foreign missionaries greater than in this after-war period 
of unsettled thought. It is the day for sane thinking and devoted 
teaching of truth among men. With emphasis upon the 
essentials and the omission of non-essentials, the union of all 
humanity should be promulgated under the principles of a world¬ 
wide Republic of Righteousness. Are the churches and de¬ 
nominations with these various organizations broad enough, har¬ 
moniously to undertake this world’s work? Will they succeed 
in a propaganda of righteous ideals? *The Bahai movement 
until recently led by Abdul Baha (Servant of God) declares for 
the union of all religions on the basis of essentials in faith. 
Bahaism looking far forward, proclaims the so-phrased “Most 
Great Peace” of earth. A temple of this live movement is being 
erected near Chicago. 

Christian Sciencef has placed new emphasis upon spiritual 
reality. Matter is denied—“All is mind”; God (the Spirit) in 
Christ revealed “is all and in all”; if He is “All” (nothing is 
“opposed to him”); by such interpretation, the eternal and ever¬ 
lasting One is assuredly Supreme in the universe. 

* Bahaism is under the guidance of the Bait-ul-Adl (House of 
Justice) headed by Shoghi Effendi, the grandson of the late 
Abdul-Baha. It would renew and unify religion the world over. 
Young Shoghi Effendi is the guardian of the Bahai cause. In 
recognition of his tolerance Abdul Baha at his house on Mt. 
Carmel was “decorated with an honor” by Gen. Allenby. 

f Why Neo-realism? Did God make truth; did He discover 
it? If the meaning be eternal, is the concept? Can the “I am” 
be identified with the “I think”; is actual identity the same as 
mere concept of identity? Do you “know” or only “think that 
you know that you think? Some things exist that you don’t 
know or have not conceived of? Do you hold that God mentally 
conceives things? The bifurcation of realism has claims. Tho’ 
Spirit sustains every thing, objects exist non-mentally. Nature 
has its own reality. The world’s existence is a fact. Mind inter¬ 
prets sign-facts seen or remembered. Objects are presented, 
impressions are cognized. Sense data are received. The mind 
using all its powers knows that its acts as well as thoughts are 
its own. Things represented are recognized. But mental concepts 
are not the only realities. The world is known as it appears with 
its colors, sounds, odors and dimensions. Consciousness is aware 
of realities both without and within. To be sure spiritual things 
are spiritually discerned.. Earthly things should not enthrall us. 
The higher realities beckon us on. God consciousness is the 
goal. 



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The Federal Council of the Churches is “Christian unity at 
work” in varied activities. It acts as a clearing house of the 
American denominations in world service for the Divine Master. 

From all these organized efforts of modern life, there results 
a spiritual residuum of good and what philosophy calls a “con¬ 
servation of values”. Shall civilization thereby be uplifted and 
at length a purer atmosphere prevail? Can selfish claims be 
set aside and international fraternity promote world’s peace? 
Seemingly, amidst a chaos of evils, Divine agencies are evolving 
that deepening sway of the unseen realm of spirit. Shall Love 
abound “ augmenting^ value” unto the perfecting of Deity? 

Universal peace shall at length usher in, earth’s fuller redemp¬ 
tion, forthwith goodness gets a hearing and man applies his heart 
unto wisdom, or ever hymns of hate are ended and men’s souls 

are attuned to love and justice,. 

(“Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, 
and the battle-flags were furl’d 
In the Parliament of man, the Federation 

of the world.”) then shall be forged the Greater 
Charter of Freedom (broader than Magna Charta of Runnymede) 
for humanity. Out of the sad annals of suffering and destruction 
thru broken law, world democracy shall save mankind and itself, 
when it turns into a theocracy. Shall democracy sink to a mere 
arith-mocracy? The single aim of democracy must be edu¬ 
cated Godward; it must deepen and mature with the progress of 
the centuries; the principle of magnanimity of heart shall evolve 
abiding goodwill. “In the latter days,” ... the Lord shall 
judge between the nations and shall reprove many peoples; and 
they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into 
pruninghooks; nation shall not lift lip sword against nation, 
neither shall they learn war any more,” 

Down the dark future, thru long generations, 

The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; 

‘Tis like a bell, with solemn sweet vibrations, 

We hear once more the voice of Christ say—Peace. 

Peace and no longer from its brazen portals 
The blast of War’s great cannon shakes the skies; 

But beautiful as songs of the immortals 

The holy melodies of love arise.” —Boardman. 


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Radiant literally amidst the clouds as foregleams of peace 
world-wide, stands the twentieth century monument on the border 
line between Chili and Argentine, more than fourteen thousand 
feet above the sea—the colossal “Christ of the Andes.” Out 
of a boundary dispute of seventy years standing, which involved 
claims to 83,000 square miles of valuable lands, by arbitration 
thru the King of England, not only was war averted but an 
incentive to peace of all nations was uplifted to view. The 
statue of Christ is a bronze, twenty six feet high, cast from 
cannon which might have been employed in the war; it rests upon 
a granite base and sphere of fourteen tons’ weight. The treaty 
which it commemorates, like its own inscription, marks the re¬ 
moval of all bitterness and is a splendid expression of trust glori¬ 
fying peace, justice and human brotherhood—“Sooner shall these 
mountains crumble into dust than Argentines and Chileans break 
the peace to which they have pledged themselves at the feet of 
Christ the Redeemer.” 

Salvation which is of the Jews thru Jesus, the noblest Hebrew 
of all, will bring not only peace of soul but when applied means 
the reign of peace among the peoples thruout the whole earth. 
Thru the New Testament gospel story, holy love is seen as 
the fulfilling of the law. The spirit of Jesus Christ touches the 
hearts of foreigners in the remotest climes. “Sir”, said an aged 
gray haired Brahman to a missionary,—“I am a Hindu and al¬ 
ways shall be, but I cannot help loving Him. The world never 
knew the like of Christ before. When I think of Him, I am 
ashamed of our gods.” The Christian faith proclaims peace 
among men of good will and Divine trust universally. 



By courtesy of the American Peace Society 


A PEACE STATUE, 


“THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES’ 














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CHAPTER VIII. 

testimony erom the Evoeving ages. 

Frederick, called the Great of Prussia, once asked his chaplain, 
what in a word was the most conclusive proof, he could present 
of the truth of Christianity? The chaplain quickly replied, 
“The Jews, your Highness.” The agnostic king was silenced, if 
not convinced. Even in the face of distorted prejudice against 
the Jews, the claim as shown by history and by fulfilled prophecy 
is one that cannot easily be set aside. Jesus as an Israelitish 
man, stands nominally at least, the anointed king of the line of 
David. Christ, the Lord or Jehovah, represents the life of God 
on earth. Israel’s history, in these days, has not ceased to be 
God’s witness. Let it be recalled how the Divine promise to 
Abraham has been fullfilled by the pervasive spiritual kingdom 
of Christ with its blessings among the nations; also how, as 
predicted, the Hebrew race because of its unfaithfulness was scat¬ 
tered, was dispersed and made wanderers among all peoples thru- 
out the world; and yet again how as at present a remnant, 
perhaps a *small third of the Jewish race is returning to eman¬ 
cipated Palestine and old Jerusalem. Ancient Judaism and its 
daughter faith of Islam, historically interpreted, (the latter thru 
Allah) point the waj' to Israel’s Jehovah; so that thru the three 
religions of the Jews, Christianity, Judaism and Mohammedan¬ 
ism, the leading powers of earth and several hundred millions of 
their people have been led to own supreme allegiance to God 
Almighty (Heb. El Shaddai). 

Many prophetic utterances of the Bible lack perspective; that 
is, the near and the far appear equally distant. Events came into 
the vision of the revelator as in Chinese pictures without order 
of relations or sequence of time or space; like changing views, 
they dissolve the present into the future. Prophecy partly ful¬ 
filled may find further enlarging accomplishment and melt away 
into far off events; Dr. Strong says “Christ’s prophecy of the 

* It is not to be expected that the entire 15 millions of Jews 
will return to Palestine. 



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destruction of Jerusalem passes into a prophecy of the end of 
the world.” Only, God, Himself, by and after the event can 
interpret it infallibly to man. However, in view of late oc¬ 
currences, scientific principles and well assured facts of philosophy 
as well as truths of religion, we are disposed in a conservative 
spirit to apply the master key to doors hemming in our known 
universe under Divine rule. As to an issue of earth’s dark 
enigma, are there any “signs of the times” and what can be read 
from the past ages? Will there be what Dr. Ward calls a spir¬ 
itual “realm of ends”? Are there incidents in history that be¬ 
token a trend towards terminations, near or far off? What in 
outline, is the testimony of world periods? The present Jewish 
situation invites brief survey at the outset. 

Since the occupation of Jerusalem by the British government, 
it has seemed sure that the earlier pledge “to establish a Jewish 
National Home in Palestine” would be fully realized; to the 
government, this has great significance politically, rather than 
spiritually. What, if any, is the religious meaning? Abundant 
are the Scripture predictions that the Jewish nation shall be re¬ 
stored to the Holy Land; the *Zionist movement among the 
Jews of every country has been noteworthy for years; more 
than eight hundred associations have existed in Russia, Austria, 
Germany and Roumania, besides many in other countries of 
the world urgently working for the Divine blessings which were 
sought thru a return to Mount Zion. 

Iron “highways” are entering Palestine for the return of Israel. 
Besides the old railroad from Joppa to Jerusalem, from Aleppo 
at the north, comes the Berlin-Bagdad connection, while the 
Iiedjaz railway and the Cape to Cairo route thread the desert 
beyond the southlands. 

Careful exegesis applies the idea of the gospel to “the latter 
days” with expectation of continued development in spiritual 
uprightness. The Old Testament prophets say synoptically, 
that, “Israel shall come with fear unto the Lord and to His good¬ 
ness in the latter days” that “ten men shall take hold of the skirt 
of him that is a Jew, saying, we will go with you, for we have 
heard that God is with you,” that “the Lord shall set His hand 


* Like Henry Morganthau, many Jews do not believe in a 
literal return to Palestine but rather the attainment of a spiritual 
Zion by culture of the soul wherever they are. Anti-Zionists 
exist. Only 20% of the American Jews are Zionists. 



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again the second time to recover the remnant of His people, . . . 
and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together 
the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth”; that 
"If an y °f thine outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, 
from thence will the Lord Thy God gather thee and from thence 
will He fetch thee and the Lord Thy God will bring thee into 
the land which thy fathers possessed and thou shalt possess it.” 
“And I will bring the third part thru the fire and will refine them 
as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried: ... I will 
say, It is my people, and they shall say, the Lord is my God.” “The 
little one shall become a thousand and the small one, a strong 
nation; I, the Lord will hasten it in its time.” On the historic 
Mount of Olives, at Jerusalem, has been laid by Dr. Weizmann 
the foundations of a Hebrew University for which in contributing 
Dr. Einstein urges a medical department and which in many 
ways gives promise of a spiritual rebirth of the Jewish nation. 
Can a united Jewish state be realized? Can the barren country 
be reclaimed for agricultural purposes? 

Jerusalem was beseiged and laid waste by the Romans under 
Titus in the year 70 A.D., just as Jesus, in His sojourn, gave 
warning. Even the huge stones of the temple were razed to the 
ground. One million and one hundred thousand Jews perished 
and another ninety seven thousand of the unhappy people were 
led away captives; survivors and eyewitnesses felt that the city 
deserved its overthrow because of internal iniquities. The sign 
of the abomination which then made desolate* was the Roman 
eagles; the power of the holy people was broken and all things 
finished as foreshadowed thru prophecy (Daniel?). Jerusalem 
was to be “trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the 
Gentiles be fulfilled” or rather “until the fulness of the Gentiles 
be come in.” In spite of temporary hardness of heart, all Israel 
shall have opportunity to accept God, but only after the totality 
of the Gentile nations have obtained entrance into the kingdom 
of Spirit; because the Jews rejected the Messiah, they must 
suffer the precedence of the Gentiles. Dean Alford is credited 
with the rendering, “this Jewish race” instead of “this generation 
shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.” If 
the rendering “this generation” be sustained, it is evident Christ’s 
prophecy points to the advent of the Paraclete which was ac- 


* Was there desecration by Antiochus Epiphanes 168 B. C.? 



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complished at Pentecost. Much of time remains for fulfilment, 
however, before the “passing of the Jewish race” which the 
broader interpretation favors. Indeed, the conversion of the Jews 
is pictured by the prophet Zechariah as the pouring out of grace 
and of supplication by God, and their penetential acceptance of 
Him whom they have pierced. Malachi also foretells of the 
Jews, “All nations shall call you happy: for ye shall be a de¬ 
lightsome land.” 

If the tenable theories of the sciences (Astronomy, Physics, 
Chemistry and Geology) regarding the world and its millions of 
years, be coordinated with the traditional facts of Moses in the 
Biblical record, the evolving aeons (Gk. atovs<;==evercon- 
tinuing periods) are easily differentiated into the age of Creation 
and Conscience, the Age of Law and Prophecy, the Age of Grace 
and the Spirit and events yet to come—the Age of Terminations. 
For each of these world periods, the Divine will according to 
foreshadowings, is working out the coordinating aim; the many 
lines shall converge in the One Mighty End. Some character¬ 
istics of the ages are distinguishable. If we should admit that 
“all things are motion” and if vibrating energy be coexistent 
with God, yet for our system which is certainly not eternal, the 
initial touch of cosmic order and original motion designates 
the first Age, in which is witnessed among men, the proclamation 
of the protevangelium or the triumph of mankind to be won 
over evil, also the evolution of human conscience. Let it be 
borne in mind that a race of untutored beings were to be gradually 
uplifted, then it does not seem so extraordinary that object lessons 
and miracles should be the early means of appeal to the people; 
hence the second Age, for the impress of Law and Prophecy, a- 
bounds in Theophanies, Jehovah messages of promise, Sinai 
scenes of law, Divine deliverances, the Pillar of Cloud by day 
and the Pillar of Fire by night, the Ark of the Covenant and 
Tabernacle worship, later the Temple, its Holy of Holies, the 
Altar, *he Mercy Seat and Cherubim, the Shekinah glory and 
Sacred Veil of the Temple. To the third Age belong the mira¬ 
cles of the Incarnation and Resurrection also Pentecost. 

Aside from Divine immanence, three times in temporal so¬ 
journ, has the same GOD stepped upon the shores of this earth; 
first, for the period of Creation and Prophecy; second, for the 
Incarnation-Calvary period; third, for the Pentecostal and Spir¬ 
itual Kingdom period; these signify special epochs in human 


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history. God was always the Eternal, thru the infinity of space. 
He has ever been Jehovah, the Creator, the Saviour, and the 
Sanctifier of mankind. No one can trace the intermediate steps 
between the world visible and the Mighty Visitant. At Creation, 
the Spirit of the Godhead was brooding over the waste of the 
waters. Whatever may be said of matter’s source, the push of 
initial power was imparted. Whatever may be said for longer 
periods of Creation, science admits that original life came from 
the unseen. It may be God’s creations were not so much en¬ 
tities as activities, not chiefly in substance but rather in orderly 
procedure. The same Jehovah Lord probed for man’s conscience 
in the garden, covenanted the promised blessing for the nations 
in Abraham, and the same Lord thundered forth the laws at 
Sinai,—He before whom “Moses trembled and durst not behold”; 
the same Majesty who “loveth the peoples” led Israel as the 
guiding Cloud and fiery Pillar and the same Cloud rested in 
Visible Presence above the wilderness tabernacle of the tent of 
meeting. Again later, the same Cloud filled the house of the 
Lord and in the Shekinah glory, dwelt above the mercy seat be¬ 
tween the cherubim within the temple of Solomon. The voice 
of the same Jehovah greeted the prophet Elijah at Mount Horeb 
For the same Lord, the warning prophets of Israel and Judah 
acted as spokesmen in the declining years. 

The master key of Biblical prophecy is Christ, the Messiah. 
The remarkable forecasts of the prophet Isaiah regarding the 
Child Ruler, a Branch and Prince of Peace are familiarly known. 
Jeremiah foretells the raising unto David of the righteous Branch 
whose name shall be called “The Lord our righteousness.” 
Daniel discloses the Everlasting Kingdom of the Son of man, 
the seventy weeks, the wars* of the saints and the judgments 
of the Most High. Micah again sets forth the Everlasting King¬ 
dom and this Eternal One to be ruler in Israel who was to go 
forth from Bethlehem Ephratah, His temporal birthplace. Along 
with denunciations of sin, several of the minor prophets, predict 
the blessedness of the Messianic reign and urge the necessity of 
the Jews’ return devoutly to God. 

In spite of the warnings, Israel and Judah repeatedly rejected 
Jehovah and came at last to the end of the “trial era”. Other 

* Is Antiochus Epiphanes 175-^64 B. C. referred to?—New 
Century Bible. 



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fulfilled prophecy is significant. The patriarch Jacob in his 
prophecy,—used as Israel’s national song, declared: “The sceptre 
shall not pass from Judah, . . . until Shiloh come,” or till HE 
come, whose it is. Of Zedekiah, the last of Judah’s kings in 
vassalage, Ezekiel (and Jeremiah as well) gave Divine prophecy: 
“Take off the mitre, off with his crown, . . . This shall be no 
more, until He come whose right it is and I will give it Him” 
By dramatic portrayal of visions, the prophet of Chebar stresses 
the Lord’s symbolical abandonment of Jerusalem before its over¬ 
throw by Babylon. The invasions in the years of Jehoiakim’s 
reign brought on the above-mentioned vassalage and began the 
seventy years of Judah’s bondage to Babylon; the siege of 
Jerusalem and the years of servitude were foretold by the 
prophets. Ezekiel sees, at the Divine mandate, the angel in white 
scatter fire brands over Jerusalem and the Cloud of glory depart 
from off the threshold of Solomon’s temple rising above the 
cherubim. And these mounting up on their wings with wheels 
beside them shadowed by the Lord’s glory from above, speed 
eastward over the Mount of Olives and go out by the eastern 
gateway (visioned way* of return to the temple in Messianic 
days) no more visibly to return to Israel until the infant Christ 
rested sublimely in the arms of the devout Simeon in Herod’s 
temple when He the Anointed Son was known as the unveiling 
of the Gentiles and the spiritual Saviour of all children of faith 
thru the blessings in Abraham. In Christ was the glory of the 
“light of life,” greater glory to the temple than Jehovah’s 
visible presence of old; He appeared the actual Shekinah, re¬ 
vealed. 

The Incarnation-Calvary period designates the arrival of 
Christus Redemptor who replied to the inquiring Philip, “he 
that hath seen me, hath seen the Father,” who answered the 
incredulous Jews, “Before Abraham was born, I AM” (Heb. 
Yahweh, Gk. syo) etpJ His name), who called Himself “the 
Son of man which is in heaven,” who announced to the Sama¬ 
ritan woman interested in a coming Messiah,f “I that speak 
unto thee am He,” who went forth from among Jews angered 


* Ezek 43:1—4. 

t Well’s God the Invisible King (p. 29) says, “Christ never 
certainly claimed to be the Messiah.” What claim of N.T. is 
clearer? 



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unto stoning Him, declaring “I and the Father are one.” This 
same Lord was the preexistent Logos, “in the beginning” 
“with God” and “was God” who became (in time) “flesh 
and tabernacled among us” adduces Saint John in his proofs 
of Jesus’ Messiahship. Christ spoke of Himself as “the Son 
of man” implying that He was something more, even “the Son 
of God.”* Human in form, He moved a Divine Shepherd 
among men; tho emptied f of His glory and the independent 
use of Divine powers, He bore the consciousness of the 
Eternal goodness; so Christ as God, claimed to forgive sins 
(Mark 2:10) and extended mercy in casting out demons (Luke 
11:20). At the incarnation time, an unparalleled being trod 
this earth, accounted philosophically the God-man. The sys- 
pathetic Master was very God, under the Spirit’s control. If 
evils made Him stern, fervent virtue made Him tender. He 
divined character; He knew men. From the guileless Nathaniel 
at first greeting, He drew the testimony: “Rabbi, thou art the Son 
of God, Thou art the King of Israel.” Unfolding His spiritual 
upreach under the figure of Jacob’s ladder, the Lord inspired the 
receptive disciple yet more: “From now onward, ye shall see 
the heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descend¬ 
ing upon the Son of man.” To the little band of sorrowing 
disciples, Christ spoke many sustaining words in farewell, yet 
none greater than His note of moral triumph—“I have overcome 
the w r orld” and his promised presence—“Lo, I am with you 
alway, even unto the end of the age.” Jesus on the witness- 
stand before the high priest, who questioned Him at last, under 
oath: “Art Thou the Christ, the Son of God”? replied by the 
testimony, for which He died,—“Thou hast said.” When the 
beloved Son yielded up His spirit on Calvary’s cross, the veil 
of the temple with its inwrought cherubim was rent in twain; 
once again the visible presence had no more symbol upon the 
earth; signs of deity vanished away; shrines were not to be 
established anywhere. Israel having rejected the Messiah and 
“killed the Prince of life,” must therefore, “abide many days 
without king, and without Prince, and without sacrifice and with¬ 
out pillar and without ephod or teraphim.” Henceforward, God 

* Vide—suggestively, Justification of God, Forsyth ((pp. 171, 189 
and 190) Scribners, 

f Phil. 2, 5,—8 Self-limitation, Kenosis. 



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was to be realized, as a permanent spiritual presence in the 
hearts of His people. 

The third earthly sojourn of God began at the day of Pente¬ 
cost with the descent of the Eternal Spirit upon Christ’s dis¬ 
ciples. Hitherto, the Spirit had been only transiently present 
with mankind; here or there on occasion occurred instances of 
the Spirit’s activity for humanity. Pentecost is not only the 
birthday of the Christian church but the original date of the 
unseen yet continuing presence of the Divine in man; thereafter 
God was to dwell spiritually in humanity for its redemption. 
On the Jewish national Thankgiving Day, at the feast date of 
Sinai’s law, fifty days after Christ’s resurrection and ten days 
after his ascension, when Jerusalem was filled with strangers 
from many lands, the Divine Spirit came. Suddenly that morning 
with the audible sound of a “rushing mighty wind” the Paraclete 
promised by Christ entered the hearts of the waiting company 
in the upper room; men and women were assembled there while 
other pious souls were quickly attracted to the scene. Deity 
manifested His presence further by the strange tongues, *lambent 
flames and the vigorous discourse of the apostle Peter which 
followed. The wonderful visitation was God’s work; Christ had 
taught, “I will not leave you bereaved, I will come to you.” 
The Helper was to be with them forever but would not be re¬ 
ceived by the world because the Spirit of Truth was not known 
of it. He was the Spirit of Wisdom, of Love, of Peace, of Un¬ 
derstanding, of Counsel, of Might and of Glory; He was the 
same Jehovah as seen of old. The disciples knowing Him act¬ 
ually received Him with joy; He was not only to abide with them 
as the continued Jehovah presence, but to complete thru them the 
“greater works.” fWhat Babel meant in dissonance, Pentecost 
meant in consonance of languages for the spread of righteousness; 
devout foreigners comprehended “the gospel news” to bear it 
to most distant climes. The era of Spirit blotted out local 
Divine abode and would prevent the sacred shrine idea longer, 
for Christ said: “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him 

* By abnormal acuteness of vision induced by gazing thru a 
drug preparation (a blue solution of dicyanin) the human aura 
can be seen in a darkened room before a velvet screen. Were 
the lambent flames of this aura at Pentecost? (Modern Spirit¬ 
ism, Schofield, p. 139) P. Blakiston’s Sons, Phila. 

t Pentecost inaugurated Unitv thru the Spirit and the FEL¬ 
LOWSHIP (Ji Koivoma) OF DIVINE FAITH. 



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must worship (not on this mountain but) in spirit and truth.” 
Sincerity tests the worshippers; among such doth the Father 
select His witnesses. God was powerfully present that Pente¬ 
costal day, seeking men’s rebirth to higher service; however the 
glossolalia and gleaming fires be interpreted, the significant fact 
was the Holy Spirit’s efficiency thru His weak children to the con¬ 
version of three thousand souls. Henceforth, God dwelt on earth, 
not in one local Jewish temple, but in myriads of saints who made 
their approach thru Christ in the sphere of the Spirit unto the 
Father—each as a “several building, fitly framed together, 
groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom ye also are 
builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.” Man’s 
spiritual realm is within. 

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It has been conjectured by some philosophers that there may 
well be other inhabited worlds of the seen and unseen universe 
wherein the drama of sin and redemption may have been many 
times reenacted; that intelligences other than earthly or angelic 
messengers, may swell the hosts of heaven and bask in the white 
radiancy of the courts of the Eternal. The vast unseen we can¬ 
not fathom. Other ideals of God, we cannot know. Revelation 
and the wise thoughts of the ages are before us; we should seek 
to interpret them thru Christ, who was “the most extraordinary 
Being ever on earth.” 

“For God has other word for other worlds, 

But for this world, the word of God, is Christ.” 



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CHAPTER IX. 

MIGHTY TERMINATIONS OE THE UNIVERSE IN CHRIST. 

The Universe with its flaming suns and circling worlds of space 
is so immense that thoughful man can by no means comprehend 
it. The thinker stands aghast at the tremendous might, scope 
and grandeur of infinitude. The loneliness as well as weakness 
of an earthly mortal in space is awful to contemplate. Man has 
found that to break natural laws invites the forfeit of life, that 
physical death loudly stresses the crushing power of nature’s 
elements. 

Who of earth shall number all the stars or tell the story of the 
shining hosts of heaven? Yet saith the psalmist, our God 
“telleth the number of the stars, He giveth them all their 
names.” Out of the whirlwind, the Lord questioned Job: 

‘‘Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the 
earth?” . . . 

“Or who stretched the line upon it?” . . . 

“Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleades, or loose the 
bands of Orion? 

Canst thou lead forth the signs of the Zodiac in their 
season 

Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train? 

Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens?” 

The humble answer of even the learned astronomers will be, 
“Of Thy glorious majesty in earth and sky, Oh, Lord, 
we have endeavored to know and to prove some fundamental 
principles. In Thy cosmos, details are numerous, but the figures 
are almost meaningless.” Some stars are dim pencils of light in 
distant space. Others gem the heavens as complex systems of 
stars. Our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, visible only below 
the equator in the regions of the Southern Cross is a binary; 
each of its stars is about equal in mass to our sun. To signal the 
twenty five and one half trillions of miles from earth to Alpha 
Centauri shining on the Milky Way in the southern hemisphere 



Drawn by the author 

THE MAJESTY OF GCD IN THE HEAVENS 
Orbits of the Planets and Halley’s Comet 














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would take about three and one half years, while the period of 
its rotation thru an elongated eliptical orbit requires eighty one 
years. Sirius, *the bluish white dog star with its little com¬ 
panion, is the brightest star in the vaulted sky. Canopus is a 
giant star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation of 
Argo. Vega is an isolated star of a bluish tint. Arcturus, 
(whether a projectile wanderer rushing thru our known system 
from without or not) shines with the red-radiancy of two hundred 
suns and is estimated to be a star several thousand times as 
mighty as our sun. The twinkling of the so-called fixed stars 
differentiates them from the planets with their steady glare 
following in spiral paths our sun. If the “heaven lies above us 
in our infancy” the childish illusions of “up and down” in the 
universe are displaced by the terms right ascension and declina¬ 
tion of astronomy later; the heavens are shown “above and 
below” in space; earth and other pin points of the sky have been 
magnified for the illustration yet quite proportionately. At the 
outmost boundary of the solar system frevolves the planet 
Neptune in an almost circular orbit, while at the other extreme 
so near to the sun that observation is difficult except at aphelion 
moves the swift Mercury. Between these extremes, Venus, Earth, 
Mars, the Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus circle the Sun 
at the focal point of their eliptical orbits. The whole solar 
system is believed to be moving towards “the apex of the Sun’s 
way” in the constellation of Hercules.! The orbits of the seventy 
five years comets like Halley’s pass near to the orbit of 
Neptune as shown. The spectroscope proves that the universe 
is composed of practically the same elements as the earth. Space 
the infinite, and the family of the heavens, declare the glory of 
God, the Eternal. 


* “Two thousand years ago Sirius was a red star” p. 426, New 
Astronomy, Todd, Amherst Professor Emeritus. 

f Rotation is absolute but motion even uniform is change in 
position of one body relatively to another; so far a proof of ab¬ 
solute motion has been difficult. The so-called fixed stars aid 
in speculative computations. Artificial force is precisely equiv¬ 
alent to gravitation in a wide field, Light in such field exhibits 
weight by its deviation and deflection. Inertial mass is equal to 
gravitational mass. Observations verified Einstein’s claim that 
the oval orbit of Mercury is distorted and advancing in the flight 
round the sun. 

t The solar apex is located by some astronomers near Vega 
of Lyra. 



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As there was an origin of the universe, so there must be an 
end of the system which is not deemed eternal. Men of science 
agree that available energy is dissipated constantly in the main¬ 
tenance of the present life of the universe. *Says, Professor 
Young: “This dissipation of energy can have but one ultimate 
result,—that of absolute stagnation when a uniform temperature 
has been everywhere attained. If we carry our imagination 
backwards we reach at last a “beginning of things” which has 
no intelligible antecedent: if forwards, an end of things in 
stagnation. That by some process or other this end of things 
will result in “new heavens and a new earth” we can hardly 
doubt ...” The cheering word is that from ten to a hundred 
million years remain before “the sun shall solidify and become 
a dark rigid globe, frozen and lifeless among its lifeless family 
of planets.”f 

Meanwhile, humankind are living in the “era of the Spirit and 
of the gospel,”—in the years of the richer, fuller spiritual coming 
of Christ, who prophesied of His Pentecostal advent: “Ye shall 
not have gone thru the cities of Israel till the Son of man be 
come.” The invisible Lord of the Spirit is now present in the 
hearts of His beloved. The kingdom of truth within is working 
out the reconstruction of humanity. This world is to be made 
brighter and more joyful. Christ’s general and individual coming 
shall be more and more realized. 

Part /, The Spiritual and Individual Coming. 

Some saw “the Son of man coming in Plis kingdom” at the 
destruction of Jerusalem, or in the various historical processes 
of the passing centuries: others now meet Him in an experience 
of spiritual quickening, in comfort for sorrows, or at the soul’sj 
journey to the heavenly mansions. The unseen Jesus has come, 


* General Astronomy, Young p. 525. Ibid., p. 524. 

Dr. Young’s Elements of Astronomy, p. 360 (1913). 

f Prof. James H. Snowden in his book—“The Coming of the 
Lord” (Macmillan Co.) p. 275 says : “The world, as we have seen, 
is yet young. The very planet is still in the workshop and will 
not be finished for millions of years. Humanity is in its infancy. 
The centuries stretch out before it in vast vistas. There is before 
it a prospect of hope and splendid optimism. The future is rosy 
with morning light. Nothing has been done that shall not be 
done better. Every human achievement shall be infinitely sur¬ 
passed.” 

$ Jno. 14:2 and 3 Continuative ep^opiai—Individual and spirit¬ 
ual coming rather than Parousia. 



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is coming, and will come in larger measure as mankind cooperate 
in the work of righteousness. With Pentecost, the realm of the 
unseen opened, that the Spirit of God might come forth to the 
special mission of completing the redemption of the world. The 
spiritual kingdom within men and outwardly shall deepen and 
extend its power. Earth is gradually to be brought under its 
sway, for Christ’s followers are “the salt of the earth” and should 
teach by their lives the exceeding righteousness of the consti¬ 
tutions of the kingdom (Sermon on the Mount). Observe how 
this kingdom of God operates progressively; it appears in an 
unbroken series of world’s judgments and blessings; now in fierce 
action and again in quiet repose; civilization’s movement is not 
uninterruptedly forward, sometimes the mad horrors of war re¬ 
tard, anon scenes of joy accelerate; whether moral victories or 
defeats outwardly, the Spirit is striving in humanity towards 
mastery. The course of progress may be up over the mountains 
and down thru the valleys but in the long estimate, always a 
few feet above the sea level (sea-sin) higher yet higher the 
ascent; at length “there shall be no more sea.” Churchly agen¬ 
cies shall hasten the consummation; the coming of the kingdom 
is the closer coming of the Christ. God’s government shall pre¬ 
vail. The perpetual warning is “Be ye ready, watch, for ye 
know not on what day, your Lord cometh.” The personal advent 
of the Bridegroom (Parousia) is certain but an undated future 
event. 

Harmony with God is the final goad down the centuries of 
spiritual development both in the moral and physical world. 
Men are coworkers together with God; not only shall nature be 
perfected in its beauties, but mankind shall be redeemed from the 
power of sin and death. Mere happiness which is a thing of 
degrees (from happen) should not be the object of man, yet 
rather Christian joy (from jet, a flowing stream) should be sought 
thru the satisfaction of enlarging service for God and humanity. 
* * * * * * 

As yet however, instead of Divine harmony, discord reigns; 
all nature is a mirror of man’s continuing sin. Has the problem 
and its solution ever been more accurately stated than by the 
inspired apostle? Nature created in frailty or correlation (the 
world imperfect and unfinished, says philosophy) suffers, with 
*man: “the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain to- 


* Rom. 8:22. 



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gether until now” waiting to be unfettered thru the revealing, in 
the glorious liberty of the children of God. In view of the im¬ 
mensity of future glory, an eloquent statue of Expectancy is 
presented; irrational nature like a suffering creature stands 
patiently waiting with outstretched head and sad eyes lifted in 
hope; her attention, fixed upon the distant horizon. With fresh 
crown and shining dress, the creature resembles a beautiful bride, 
sorrowing for her suddenly stricken bridegroom. Tears bedew 
her cheeks; all her charm is melancholy. She stands chained 
to the spot and condition. She sighs with the wind. She mutters 
with the thunders of the destructive lightning. Her heart throbs 
with the violent eruptions of the volcano and the rude shocks of 
the earthquake; she betrays restlessness in the roll and roar of 
the angry sea; she wails and moans when the mad tempest de¬ 
stroys life and mars her face; she rages in brute creation as one 
half the animal kingdom preys ruthlessly upon the other half; 
her frenzy is made known in the disastrous casualties of inscrut¬ 
able providence; tho sometimes sanguinary, nature is not cruel 
like man. This expectant creation figure is observed and held 
in much regard by mankind. Lo, the seal of death is breaking and 
her redemption is gradually drawing nearer. Nature shall be¬ 
come free from present thraldom. The restraints and imper¬ 
fections of earth’s forces shall fall away at the dawning of the 
new universe upon the sons of God. 

By some, the world is conceived as the one jarring note in the 
universe of God. Earth is out of harmony with God because 
of sin. Does this prevent us from intercourse with other in¬ 
telligences or different orders of worlds? To embody the 
thought in a figure reverently: when God, the Great Harpist 
breathes upon the mighty Harp of the Universe with its million 
strings, the E string of earth is found discordant, yet a little time; 
its peg must be skillfully adjusted to bring its tone to concert 
pitch and into accord with other tones. As the tuning goes on, 
nature vibrates harshly at the Divine touch, just as the 
grains of sand are tumbled and jarred into order at the draw 
of the violin bow upon the Chladni plate. But the discordant 
string of earth must be reconciled to the universe of God at what¬ 
ever sacrifice; it must sound in perfect time and chord, when at 
length the E string shall be keyed aright, then all shall be in 
true relation to one another and the Eternal. In the parlance 
of “radio,” man and his world “shall be tuned in to the right 


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pitch.” At the end, thru Christ, nature and humanity accept¬ 
ing redemption, shall sound majestically with the universe the 
melody of heaven in perfect harmony,—shall sing the song of 
holiness,—of Moses and the Lamb, forever afterward, “IN TUNE 
with the INFINITE.” 

In connection with the remarkable transfiguration scene (Matt. 
& Mark) in which Moses and Elijah participated with Christ, the 
disciples persistently questioned the facts concerning the current 
Messianic tradition as to “the coming of Elijah first” and the 
consummation or “restoration of all things.” In reply, *they 
elicited assurance from the Lord that the prophecy was true,— 
its fulfillment giving hints as to His tragical sufferings, indeed 
that in “spirit and power,” Elijah had come (as John the 
Baptist) already; that “a suffering forerunner is to be followed 
by a suffering Messiah” (interpreting with Dr. Alfred Plummer); 
that the restoration among the tribes of Israel was John’s work 
of preparation for the Son, a calling of sinners to repentance, the 
baptismal rite and a witnessing as to the Lamb of God, also the 
training of disciples for Christ. They still clung to the idea of 
temporal rule; before Christ’s ascension, they asked: “Wilt thou 
at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” On other occa¬ 
sions, they inquired: what about “the timesf of the restoration 
of all things” (restoration of disturbed order, physical and the¬ 
ocratic) or in their ambition for preferment, secured the promise 
of Christ to judgment honors “in the regeneration” (in Ihe new 
universe). What then is in store at the end of the age 
sto? ty|s ffimsXetas tou ac&va; or summing up (Eph. l:9 r 
10.)? The meaning of this and similar difficult passages has 
been suggested; the reference is not to the restoration of fallen 
souls but to the restoration of harmony spiritually in the earth 
and universe; that evil is to be banished and that the kingdom 
of Christ shall triumph over all foes; and that the wicked shall 
experience self-exclusion. 

The parables of Christ are earthly stories with heavenly mean¬ 
ing. With the extensiveness of the “mustard” shrub and the 
intensiveness of the permeating “leaven”, His spiritual kingdom 
is to continue growth far down the fleeting centuries of time. 
The “pearl of the kingdom” hidden but priceless will repay the 


* Matt. 11:7-15 and 17:9-13. Vide Gk. Lex. 
t Acts 1:6 and 3 :2i. 



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most diligent search. The “drag net gathers of every kind” in 
the sea for the sorting at the brink of Eternity. The “tares and 
the wheat” grow together in the field until the completion of the 
age (Matt. 13). The Spirit’s power shall increase step by step, 
tho sometimes apparently checked by worldly forces. Human 
amelioration shall make gradual advancement. Physical law 
shall work out the changes in the universe; earth’s renewal on 
old lines is not the aim; its rejuvenation is not the Divine 
method; its spiritual forces shall in the ultimate be more closely 
unified. God shall be better realized. Righteous values shall 
be conserved unto Eternity. Doubtless the period of develop¬ 
ment will be long. Be reminded by the Apostle Peter “beloved, 
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand 
years as one day.” The Scriptures pioclaim a transformation 
and a transmutation of the seen universe, the heavens shall wax 
old and be rolled up as a garment and the earth and its works 
* shall be jound (for “doom decreed”) the spiritual point how¬ 
ever, is the “new heavens and the new earth wherein dwelleth 
righteousness.” Upon the spiritual transformation, Dorner’s 
view is worthy of essential citation,—“without loss of substantial¬ 
ity, matter will have exchanged its darkness, hardness, heavi¬ 
ness, inertia, and impenetrableness for clearness, radiance, elas¬ 
ticity and transparency. A new stadium will begin,—God will 
advance to new creations, with the cooperation of perfected 
mankind.” Again Sir Oliver Lodge says, “The history of a solar 
system may be written, but its birth and also its death are 
separated by millions of millions of years; its blotting out is an 
episode in the eternal cosmogony.” In all transformations of 
the universe from physical to spiritual, the Sustaining Power 
guides. 

The Scripture terms, life, death, resurrection, judgment and 
coming of Christ are used in a twofold sense,—literal and spir¬ 
itual; just as man’s physical death is distinguished from the death 
of the soul. To interpret Biblical truth, not the verbal but the 
sensible purport is required. Such is especially the case with 
Apocalyptical literature where symbolism predominates. Undue 
emphasis upon minor details is always to be avoided. Regarding 
the millennial reign of Christ, which is doubtless spiritual in sig- 

* Not “burned up” but Greek eupeOiQjeTac (discovered) Amer. 
R. V. accepted text. (Wescott & Hort) 2 Pet. 3:10. Vide Gk. Lex. 




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nificance, only brief hints* as to interpretation can be given 
space. The millennial idea seems to confuse many. The 
‘‘thousand years” of the one passage, as a descriptive thought 
can hardly be construed literally. If it were, it would be the 
first figure in the details of John’s vision to have literal meaning. 
One thousand as the cube of ten may rather denote completeness 
or perfection. The “binding of Satan” it would appear was 
begun by Christ Himself in the triumph over His temptation 
tests and by the labors of His disciples (Luke 10:18, “Satan 
fallen ... from heaven”). Besides the Master declared: “now shall 
the prince of this world be cast out” and in another discourse: 
“Convict the world ... of judgment, because the prince of this 
world hath been judged.” Or as in the parable—the strong 
man in his house—Christ bound Satan. Instead of the thousand 
years, if any time is to be regarded,—like “the little while” of 
which Christ told His disciples, should be “the little time” com¬ 
prehended by the whole Christian age (the time, times and Z A 
time == 'bYz times, 42 months, 1260 days ==3^2 years) or “the 
short time” allotted to Satan to be loosed among the ungodly 
nations and to be completely bound for the Godly nations; it 
is all a little while. The “first resurrection” is conversion (re¬ 
generation in character), to which spiritual resurrection the Master 
referred as “the hour that now is, when the dead (in sins) shall 
hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live 
(spiritually). “Over these the second death hath no power” 
and so completely do these saints reign with Christ “that the 
evil one toucheth them not” for their “life is hid with Christ 
in God.” The Old Testament saints as “The rest of the dead” 
doubtless, are made alive (not after in time) unto perfected re¬ 
demption. The triumph of the Horseman with His hosts in 
white, over all foes is complete. The Rider of the white horse 
is victorious King of Kings. 

The redemptive plan involved the incident of sin. Man com¬ 
mits the sin. God uses the sin as a tool for man’s betterment. 
Sin in this world is like a mad dog with a chain on him, but God 
holds the chain. Satan rejoiced most of all in the crucifixion of 
Christ. Thereby God redeemed His people. Men need never 
more lament lost Eden; God provided holier heaven. Without 
human choice, God according to His good purpose brought man 


* Wm. Milligan—Expositor’s Bible; also Dr. J. S. Riggs’ Lectures 
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to earth. Divine care spiritually is evident: “No good thing will 
He withhold from them that walk uprightly.” The Spirit of 
redeeming love shall strive incessantly with humanity till the 
distant end of time; progress Christward is assured: “for the 
earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters 
cover the sea.” 

We turn now from Christus Redemptor, to Christus Consum- 
mator and the end (To TeXo?) or extreme terminations. To 
the ancients, the earth and the visible sky comprehended the 
whole universe. Christ is the Head of the universe as well 
as of the church which He founded. In Him, dwelleth the 
pleroma of the Godhead bodily. Thru Him, all things visible 
and invisible, whether things upon earth or things in the heavens 
are to be reconciled and Divinely harmonized. Physical and 
spiritual terminations of the world await the Consummator far 
away down the millienniums of years. It is purposed to SUM 
UP ALL THINGS IN CHRIST at the dispensation of the 
fulness of the times. For by Him, and for Him and unto Him 
were all things created; indeed in Him, all things cohere. The 
laws of the universe subsist in Christ and no stability in relation¬ 
ship exists without Him. Apart from Him, nature would fall 
asunder into nothingness. His support is the guarantee that the 
sun shall rise every morning. It will continue to shine just so 
long as the Sun of Righteousness has an object in its existence 
as a power. By varied processes of the Master’s spiritual coming 
shall slow approach be made to the world’s end. The Risen 
Lord claimed all authority and promised His presence to the 
disciples unto the end. Science shall give warnings. Scripture 
among prophetic obscurities, sounds one clear note: “These good 
tidings of the Kingdom shall be preached in the whole inhabited 
earth for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the 
end come.” Completed gospel discipling of the entire human 
race is the only sure sign. Undreamed of possibilities lie ahead 
in the future, for Christ is the Coming One; the Parousia 
promised is yet unfulfilled. 

Part II. Christ’s Presence or Parousia* 

The Parousia is defined as the personal presence of Christ; 
it refers to the sudden final coming of Christ and His manifesta¬ 
tion with Divine power to set in order formally His glorious 


* Read further on the point, Christian Theology p. 444 Clarke. 



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kingdom, practically at the close of human history for the 
eternal reign. Doubtless the long cherished hopes of the 
Biblical authors for an earthly Jewish kingdom somewhat dis¬ 
colored their revealed message; assuredly the temperamental e- 
quation tinged the thought expression; they awaited something 
like a golden age or millennium of national prosperity. Christ’s 
spiritual kingdom hardly met their human expectations. Un¬ 
mistakably, most of them hoped for the Master’s early return. 
The consensus of* their deliverance is that the advent of Jesus 
Christ will usher in the final judgment and the general resur¬ 
rection at the end of the world. Of their further meaning, Dr. 
Beet says: “The Day of Days will unite whatever sin has sepa¬ 
rated, restore whatever sin has damaged, and bring in universal 
and eternal harmony.” Did Christ teach His return to earth?* 
What is the meaning of the recorded words of Christ as to His 
manifestation to human spirits? Is the teachings of Jesus,— 
f“AN INTERIMSETHIK”— adapted to the short period be¬ 
fore the end? 

Professor George Holley Gilbert in a reported lecture says: 
“The obscurity as to the Parousia must be traced to the misun¬ 
derstanding of the disciples and not to the thought of Jesus. 
There are two events which Jesus calls a coming of the Son of 
Man. First, the coming of the kingdom, or the coming of the 
Son of Man with the clouds of heaven, was to be in the near 
future and was the triumph of the gospel. Second, the other 
coming, namely, that with angels was to be at the end of the age. 
We must hold that the Parousia with angels is a mark of the 
consummation, and consequently that the gospels give no counte¬ 
nance to the belief that the Lord Jesus will ever return to the 
earth in an objective and visible manner.” We conclude that 
Dr. Gilbert distinguishes “the coming with the clouds as a com¬ 
ing to souls, because “the cloud” (vscpeXY]) is symbolical of 
Deity, while “the coming with angels” would be figurative and 
suggestive of eternal triumph at the end. The late, Dr. W. N. 


* No, seems like another misunderstanding by the disciples,— 
Acts 2:44 and 45. 

f An Interimsethik; is there an ethical teaching, Jesus in¬ 
tended for the little time before the end? It seems unlikely. 
Eschatology p. 108, Jackson. See art. in London Expositor, Nov. 
’12, C. W. Emmet. 



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Clarke* says: “No visible return of Christ to earth is to be expect¬ 
ed, but rather the long and steady advance of His spiritual king¬ 
dom. The expectation of a single dramatic advent corresponds to 
the Jewish doctrine of the nature of the kingdom rather than to 
the Christian.” So far as plain definite statement is concerned, no 
authority appears (except by obscure implication) for the idea 
of Christ’s return to the earth.f We know “Christ after the flesh 
no more” but cherish His promise: “And lo, I am with you 
alway, even unto the end of the world” by spiritual presence. 
Furthermore, God does not work by backward movement but 
seems to have a progressive aim; Christ will doubtless come but 
it will be more as an advance step in spiritual development for 
the whole universe. Let it be recognized how difficult it is, to 
describe such a coming in human language; we cannot understand 
the terms nor experiences of the spiritual world. We can only 
get an impression from the figurative teachings of the Bible and 
express the interpretation thru the poverty of human speech. 

Some things seem certain from the statements of the epistles 
as well as gospels. Completness in Christ is the end towards 
which all things move. The date of the Parousia and close of 
the dispensation is not to be fixed but is rather Divinely with¬ 
held. The details given are to encourage Christian hope and 
service. Glory is the garment of faithful Christianity. The 
Day of the Lord shall be the manifestation of the grace and 
glory already acquired by the faithful; sinners shall be revealed. 
The saints shall ever be with the Lord, even should it be necessary 
for those alive “to be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord 
in the air” by the so-called rapture (apxa^w), St. Paul asserts 
authoritatively, continual Divine presence. Spiritual death will 
be abolished; Christ shall reign; God, be Supreme. 

The supernatural order of the Uni-verse (turned into one) is 
revealed in the Word. At last, the whole scroll of redemption 
shall be unrolled. As “out of the darkness of night, the world 


* See note on p. 88. 

f Luke 18:8 not the Parousia. The promise of the parable has 
nothing to do with the time of the occurrence of the Parousia; 
the final question (Lu. 18:8) is not on the basis of the parable 
but merely in allusion to it—“But will the Son of man where he 
shall have come, indeed find the faith on the earth-” (eXOcov) 

—coming, a circumstantial not temporal participle. Goebel, Para¬ 
bles of Jesus p. 266, T & T Clark. 



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rolls into the light and ‘tis daylight everywhere, so to this mighty 
cosmos, God shall eventually bring the increasing light celestial. 
In a realm above nature, time, limits or dimensions, God, the 
Deity of Hosts abides amidst principles of eternal truth, love 
and holiness: His subjects are spiritual beings not material 
things. “According to His promise, we look for new heavens 
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness” thru Divine 
redemption. When Christ ascended, it was not so much a change 
of place as emancipated state of being. The cloud covered the 
transformation. To be exalted to the right hand of God, was 
not to sit in a particular place, but to be enabled to act, to 
know, to feel in the Eternal capacity. He was restored to His 
original condition of glory. The mode of Divine existence does 
not exclude the spiritualized body of Jesus but confers upon it 
celestial powers of operation; all old functions of value may be 
retained but none are required except for the Mediatorial service. 
So Christ in His glorious redemption body, “shall appear a second 
time, apart from sin, to them that wait for Him, unto salvation.” 
The unseen barriers of the Spirit world shall be rolled away; 
the perception of human spirits shall be sharpened. 

The first or present resurrection is inner spiritual quickening. 
Such quickened spirit at death begins to occupy its “house from 
God.” So too, in this resurrection from the dead and redemption 
of the body, we arise by rebirth to higher planes of spiritual 
experience. Not an old body from the grave restored physical¬ 
ly, but a celestial body adapted perfectly to spirit shall rise like 
a new shoot unto growth by its original formative life. Death 
transplants souls to the eternal gardens. Mankind shall rise 
until the final triumph of redemption is announced. The general 
resurrection shall complete this transformation of humanity. 
Life is the time of present judgment. It is an unveiling in part 
of character now. Each one has the opportunity of self-judg¬ 
ment that he come not into final judgment for his works and 
words. The Master said: “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth 
not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I 
spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.” Resurrection 
and judgment are both processes culminating at the close of the 
age. Evidently for His faithful disciples Christ did not look 
for a bodily resurrection nor the final judgment disclosure. If 
other sins except the unpardonable sin may be forgiven either 
“in this world or that which is to come,” punishment is not so 
much retributive as disciplinary and reformative. The quench- 


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less fire is figurative of Divine wrath. Who would doubt that 
souls shall make continual progress in the after life? Will the 
judgment be a manifestation of moral capacity and standing? 
Will it separate the fit from th® unfit, into varied grades and 
stages? The eternal hereafter will not be so much a place as 
a state of being. “The mind is its own place and of itself can 
make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” In terms of symbol¬ 
ism, “the throne of God and the Lamb shall be” in the holy 
city. The extremest punishment shall be everlasting separation 
from God. The highest bliss of the holy shall be uninterrupted 
fellowship with Him who spiritually conquers All . There shall 
be no more curse, no more night. His servants shall serve Him. 
The Lord shall give light. The saints shall see His face and 
learn His new name; “and they shall reign forever and ever.” 

From the eternal heavens—His dwelling place, God warneth 
*“yet once more” with voice like the sound of many waters which 
by the tumult of His tones maketh the universe to tremble, that 
sin, evils and perishable things may fall away, “that those things 
which are not shaken may remain.” But “the wicked shall do 
wickedly and not understand.” The powers of the sky shall 
be shaken; the distressed and fainting among the nations shall 
mourn. Then out of the black darkness, shall the righteous shine 
forth as the stars forever. “The spirits of just men made per¬ 
fect” shall triumph over matter, now to be mastered, glorified 
and redeemed. 

Like flashes of lightning illuminating the heavens from east 
to west shall the Day of the Lord dawn. Adown the far arching 
skies, above the purple clouds of morning, shall blaze forth the 
sign of the Sun of Righteousness. Under the gleam of that 
Eternal whiteness, the veil of vapors shall lift and all but the 
clouds and body of His glory vanish away. Every spiritual eye 
shall see Him. The mighty curtains of the Eternal Unseen shall 
sweep aside. Figuratively, the scene opens before us. Along 
the tingling deserts of infinitude, the myriad hosts of heaven are 
marshalled; millions of white robed spirits and angel messengers 
troop thru the far vistas and corridors of Eternity. ’Tis the 
bright shining of His Appearing. After the likeness of His humila- 
tion, Jesus Christ the glorified Conquering Horseman sits on high! 

* Heb. 12:27. 

f Vide Dan. chap. 7 and 12, also Rev. 7, 15 and 19. 



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amidst the countless multitudes,—that splendid Central Figure— 
both the Infant and Ancient of Days; “thousand thousands 
minister unto Him and ten thousand times ten thousand stand 
before Him;” and listen spiritually, you hear the children sing¬ 
ing, waves of harmony roll thru the vast expanse,—the song of 
Moses and the song of the Lamb—“Great and marvelous are 
thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are 
Thy ways, Thou King of the ages.” By spiritual vision, be¬ 
hold yonder, troops of tall angels worship before Him, with palms 
in their hands, saying, “Salvation unto our God, which sitteth 
on the throne, and unto the Lamb.” See the white robed multi¬ 
tude move forward,—“These are they which come out of the 
great tribulation, and they washed their robes and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb.” ... “And God shall wipe 
away every tear from their eyes.” Hark! the million trumpets 
blare, the resurrection hosts march by in fulness of spiritual 
being; these bear marks and banners of earth. Anon, the scene 
changes, God in the person of Jesus Christ sits in the centre of 
the thrones of judgment. Personal identity and conscience rule; 
tablets of memory are opened; ’tis the final manifestation; 
swiftly the ranks deploy to right and left; each and all go to their 
own places without a word. And now, are summoned the 
platoons of Satan to meet the Shepherd of love, for He hath 
^brought “to nought him that had the power or death, that is, 
the devil.” 

Part III. Scenae de Pine Mortali. 

The omnipotent love of the Master can transform the serpent 
into an angel of God. The petition “Lead us not into tempta¬ 
tion but deliver us from the evil one” shall have final fulfillment. 
Christ shall destroy the works of the devil (D-evil?); the conse¬ 
quences of all iniquity are provided for Divinely. tSatan’s rov¬ 
ing minions shall be brought to account. The elect of God have 


* Heb, 2:14. 

f “Nothing has been less clearly demonstrated than the exist¬ 
ence of the Devil,” Flammarion. Bible stories make Satan very 
real. Whatever may be said about the personality of the Devil 
(6 A&a6oXoq) the spirit of evil and evil spirits abound as op¬ 
posed to universal Spirit or the Holy Spirit. Evil stands con¬ 
trasted to good. “Prince of the power of the air”—of “angels 
that sinned”— “kept not their own estate.” The favorite per¬ 
sonation of the Devil now is human form. 




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been gathered from the four winds of heaven; the saints shall 
reign with Christ to judge the world and angels. God moves 
with majestic deliberation but His silent patience shall render 
*a heavy toll of judment to the guilty. In spite of long delay 
(as time goes) the final settlement shall secure the exact reckon¬ 
ings of the Eternal Cross: the incorrigibles having been made 
ineffectual, shall go to their plane of being. Everywhere is 
Divine order; nothing shall hinder the reign of Christ. “Every 
fknee shall bow of things in heaven and things on earth and 
things under the earth and every tongue shall confess that Jesus 
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” The whole uni¬ 
verse at last joins to honor the Master whose glory is reflected ev¬ 
erywhere. The risen Lord is the ultimate answer to the riddle of 
the universe: thru Him we shall see guilt, wrong, death and 
sorrow forever abolished. It shall be wonderful to go on to 
“know the Lord.” Unknown to the eye, ear and heart of man 
are the things prepared for them that love God but all things 
to come are yours; and ye are Christ’s and Christ is God’s. The 
Redeemed immortals reigning forever in the being of their Lord, 
shall enjoy the glorious liberty of the new universe. 

JLucian the Greek satirist tells how on a “day off”, Charon 
the old ferryman of the nether world with the messenger Hermes 
found amusement in viewing the follies of mortals. Charon as 
a personage figurative of death and Hermes as the conductor of 
the shades (the dead), by Homeric lines of incantation, pile the 
mountains sky-high and ascend aloft to look down on deluded 
men. With cleared vision they apprehend and criticise many 
events of earth. Charon applauds Solon’s wisdom, in not pro¬ 
nouncing the rich Croesus happy until the end of life; “Only 
at my ferry is the shade’s happiness determined” ejaculates 
death’s boatman. He laughs at the graves of mankind decked 
with flowers. He dilates upon life’s frailties, comparing men 
to inflated bubbles on a stream. He sees the Argives and Spar¬ 
tans at war over a petty boundary question and taking leave of 
Hermes with thanks, exclaims with keen satire: “What a wretch¬ 
ed life, men lead, with no thought concerning Charon!” Paul, 


* i Cor. 6:13. 11 Thess. 1:8-10. 

V 

f Phil. 2:10. 

± Prof. C. R. Williams Greek sel. from Lucian. 



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the seer of *immortality, yet more wonderfully rises above and 
beyond earthly experiences as he discourses upon the resurrec¬ 
tion, the destruction of evil forces, “the death of death” and 
when at last he peers prophetically thru the mists of centuries 
to view the glories of the far-off end (slxa to t i\oq). His vision 
has the longest out-reach of all; it limns the picture of the reign 
of the Godhead in Eternity; for God shall be all in all,—occupy 
“all relations in all creations” doubtless. 

The nominal reign of the Mediator is limited to the putting 
down of all rule, all authority, and power, and to the abolish¬ 
ment of death. Whatever may be the modern ideas of the forces 
of evil and their organization, the Apostle wrestled with prin¬ 
cipalities of darkness and with spiritual wickedness of world 
rulers in high places, tho not alone of the flesh and blood type. 
Far distant, he saw the dreadful conflict wdiich should rage, un¬ 
til the “central mind, will and hate” of Rule should be subdued; 
until the executive agents of Authority should be confounded; 
until the privates in iniquity’s Power should be disarmed. The 
task of the Messiah is ended at the cessation forever of the 
power of death. The mightiest enemy, physical and spiritual 
death thru both stages of the resurrection, quickening and en- 
swathement of the soul, shall be utterly subjugated. Then 
cometh the END when Christ thru love shall merge all triumph 
into the fullness (xXrjpG^pia) of the Godhead. Somehow Christ’s 
mission embraces the reconciliation and harmony of the whole 
universe (xa xavxa). Just as Titus, the warring son gave his 
martial triumphs against Judaism to Vespasian—his father, the 
Roman Emperor, so Christ shall deliver over the Kingdom in the 
sense of power against enemies—to God, the Father, that the 
authority of the Triune Being may be made supreme. 

The Terminations yet to be consummated by the Conquer¬ 
ing One comprise as outlined, the phase of completed Coming,— 
the General Resurrection, the Final Judgment, the Reconcilia¬ 
tion of the Universe, the Death of Death, the Delivery of the 
Kingdom to God, the Father, consequently complete Harmony 
with God and the reign of the Heavenly Kingdom. “The End”’ 
shall only bring to realization the spiritual fruition of Eternity; 


* i Cor. 15:24 ff.—Prof, J. S. Riggs—Lectures, Auburn, N. Y. 

On the whole passage, vide in loco, Cambridge Bible, New Century 
Bible, Expositor’s Bible, Pulpit Commentary 



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it does not imply the end of Divine government or the end of 
man’s spiritual progress; it denotes that spiritual peace has been 
made in the seen and unseen universe; that the supremacy of 
God has been forevermore manifested. As partakers of the 
Divine nature, humanity and perhaps the miscellaneous multi¬ 
tudes of other intelligences shall together people the heavenly 
world. The chief joy shall be God’s sustaining presence; His 
lovable existence as a consistent whole and His illimitable life 
of spiritual out-reach thru goodness shall delight all souls. “And 
His servants shall do Him service.” (Chapter VII Supremacy 
thru love.) 

While, perhaps it is true that humanity has entered upon new 
stages of advancement for the world, since the World War, yet 
never was the need of Christian activity greater, nor the time 
riper for accentuation of the petition: “Thy kingdom come, 
Thy will be done”; in allusion to the Father, how significant 
of Divine sovereignty! We know that beyond the great ad¬ 
venture, in that unseen realm shall be the adjustment of all things 
to the place for which created or to the position whither they 
have assigned themselves in the universe of God. Thither, 
beyond the western sunset, into the unknown, we shall each, 
sooner or later be called. May we be enabled to join triumphant¬ 
ly in Milton’s sonnet: 

“Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss 
With an individual kiss; 

And joy shall overtake us as a flood; 

When every thing that is sincerely good 
And perfectly divine, 

With Truth and Peace and Love shall ever shine 

About the supreme throne 

Of Him, t’whose happy-making sight alone, 

When once our heav’nly-guided soul shall climb, 

Then all this earthly grossness quit, 

Attir’d with stars, we shall for ever sit, 

Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time. 


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CHAPTER X. 

EPILOGUE. 

The claim of the Master Supreme seems far-reaching: “And 
other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must 
lead . . . and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.” To the Venus 
dwellers, the Mars canal builders, and the intelligences of all 
other systems as of earth, the Ally Protector gives the urge of 
nature, exercising complete sway thruout the cosmos under 
the “Principle of Least Action.” The path of least resistance 
is the shortest even tho it follow a curve; the One and the 
Many press forward towards harmony sublime. *Modern science 
is asking ‘Are individuals, psychic atoms of God?’ 

Says Sir Francis Bacon: “They that deny a God destroy 
man’s nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his 
body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base 
and ignoble creature.” Of Deity behind “this universal frame,” 
the same essayist aserts: “And therefore God never wrought 
miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works con¬ 
vince it.” Centuries before a nobler than he wrote to the 
Romans; “For the invisible things of Him since the creation 
of the world are clearly seen, being perceived thru the things 
that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity.” GOD 
then, is the sustaining and containing life of the universe. The 
philosophically Absolute is properly represented by God and 
His dependent Universe; only therein, can be known experiment¬ 
ally the selves and the Higher Self of Pluralism. He, whose 
body, creation seems to be, yet is Deity,—the Ultimate Underly¬ 
ing Cause of all things, even the Lord of Lords. (Gen. 2:3.) 

It is pointed out by Hebraists that very literally—“God creat¬ 
ed to make” matter, life and soul; that he certainly set in order 
luminaries and imparted original energy. Divine power alone 
can account for what philosophers call the “shifting of cosmic 
weather”—the rearranging of matter and of motion. A recent 
lecturer at Aberdeen, Scotland, quoted in the Gifford course 


* New Philosophy of Modern Science by W. W. Strong. 



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from the famous “World-riddles”—essays by Du Bois-Reymond: 
“After the first incomprehensibility of the nature of matter and 
force comes the origin of movement, then the origin of life and 
what appears to be purposive adaptation, then the origin of 
sentience, and finally the origin of rational consciousness and 
will. Each transition is one of the eternal ‘limits’ set to our 
knowledge of nature, in regard to which the confession of science 
must be a perpetual ‘Ignorabimus’.” Whence is ionization and 
vibrations? Was radium created de novo? Science tells us, it is de¬ 
rived from pitch blende or the salts of uranium; that every atom 
of this complex radium easily throws off from twenty to thirty 
thousand electrons; yet the radium atom carries its own de¬ 
struction within itself, for not infrequently it explodes thus 
firing off a portion of itself until it finally becomes inert. God 
is the ground of the existence of the universe; He reveals Him¬ 
self thru it; He alone can make it intelligible whether it be His 
creative act or be founded in the nature of God. In life, 
in vibrations, and in motion, God makes apparent ultimate 
reality. He is the living God; a living God is a growing God, 
advancing unto greater maturity. To argue “causes in nature” 
and “things have always been so” does not dispose of God. 
The “always have been so” (force) is eternal; the Eternal we 
name God. *Professor Reuterdahl shows that God is the Space- 
Time Potential who maintains the difference of interaction 
among bodies; that He exerts force at a distance,—He is im¬ 
manent. The ether of space is discarded as “an absurd, fan¬ 
tastic inconsistency”. Science is apprehending force as “an im¬ 
material entity” by which the Spirit of God is made manifest. 
A Transcendent Being does exist upon whom the universe de¬ 
pends for its continuity. His activity insures reality of ex¬ 
perience. 

God expresses Himself to man thru the Trinity; the Father 
in reserve, the Son as an unfolding, the Spirit for communication. 
God is light. As the rainbow is light unraveled, so Jesus Christ 
is God unraveled. God is spirit. He is an indwelling Presence 
in man. To every listening soul, He speaks by the waft of spir¬ 
itual impulse. God keeps sin from undoing us. He confounds 
the evil doers. He heartens His cooperative agents. How 
shall we comprehend a Being of a higher kind of spirit (Deity 
garbed in nature) present here with us, yet also billions of miles 


* Scientific Theism, Reuterdahl, Devin-Adair, N. Y. 




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i 

away, ever creatively active? God is love. God is not self- 
centered but self-communicative. His benevolence promotes the 
well being of others. He does not coerce, nor strangle human 
initiative but He persuades by love. ’Twas mother’s tears that 
brought Dr. Paxton as a delinquent pupil to solve his school 
problems quickly: “If you care, mother, I will finish by to-morrow 
night.” We needs must obey the eternal impulsions of un¬ 
selfish love. We love Him because He first loved us. Omni¬ 
potence is mightiest thru love. God is powerful by His atoning 
love which untiringly transforms the evil into good for His erring 
children. Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes iniquity; 
He burns up the dross. Not only is man’s sin self-tormenting 
and naturally destructive but God is transcendent as well as im¬ 
manent; it shall be a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the 
Lawgiver—Himself, who must maintain justice. Browning in 
“A Soul’s Tragedy” says: “I trust in God, the Right shall be the 
Right and other than the Wrong while He endures.” Love, 
Light and Spirit are dynamics, by these “the Good Will of Him 
who dwelt in the bush” shall conquer. (Deut. 33:16). 

By the sovereignty of God, we would convey not so much the 
old time idea of royal splendors, kingly authority and dominat¬ 
ing independence, but rather the supremacy of personality, out- 
reaching interest, supreme will and effectual power to uplift and 
to serve His universe. Herein is the manifestation (Gk. A 
== glory) of the sway of the everpresent, immanent and tran¬ 
scendent Majesty—the Hope of the mystery of existence, yea 
the mighty Helper of souls. The universe appears to be a 
struggle upward both for God and humanity; earth seems a 
“vale for the moulding of souls.” The surest way to know God 
eternally, is to serve Him now; the way to serve God, is to help 
Him do the world’s work. By our fidelity, God will profit; our 
works prove whether our hearts are with Him. Satisfaction in 
our service denotes harmony; we crave restoration to Divine 
likeness. Can we do better than to turn to the right and keep 
straight on the road of truth and nobility? Science in the 
words of R. A. Proctor admits,—“As touching the Almighty, we 
cannot find Him out.” The sceptical philosopher David Hume 
(Chap. I) appended to his “Treatise” the following significant 
testimony: “The order of the universe proves an omnipotent 
Mind.” The ambitions of science and the arts of air navigation 
do well that they uplift their petitions to the Master of all law: 


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To the wastes of the trackless skies, alone 
On the wings of man, to the realms of God, 

Birdmen of progress, swift have flown, 

Where none but spirits have ever trod: 

And prayers ascend from hearts of worth, 

‘Help us, Oh Lord, to encircle the earth.’ 

Like the flight of these birdmen is the upward sweep of the 
praying soul in resurrection glory. Conquering power indeed, 
resides in the all-transmuting-supremacy of the Master’s Spirit 
over forces of physical decay. God acts the part of Wonderous 
Alchemist. As out of the dying seed, the shoot of grain springeth, 
so spiritual vitality bursts the encasing bonds of effete material. 
Nothing good shall be lost; rather real worth increaseth. God 
augments values by spiritual transformation. 

Religion brings its testimony from experience. Late one Sun¬ 
day afternoon, when a distinguished congregation had assembled 
for vesper service in Saint Paul Cathedral, London, a most severe 
storm lowering o’er the skies burst from the summer atmosphere. 

’ The vivid lightning flashed and the terrific thunders rolled as 
rain descended, while within the cathedral, the choral strains 
arose to the accompaniment of the deep toned organ: 

“Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” 

sj# xi/ xl/ 

■T* ^ 'j' 'J' 'p 

as if by antiphonal response, the mighty thunders resounded thru 
the heavens, until at a moment eloquent by its stillness, the 
choral again made answer: 

“Let all the earth keep silence before Him.” 

The storm cleared away, and at length the worship ended, the 
audience thronged forth along the pavement. The American 
gentleman to whom the incident is credited, looked once more 
upon the face of refreshed nature, towards the resplendent rays 
of the setting sun, while his thoughts turned back to the village 
church of his native land, his uplifted spirit sang to his soul, 
and his soul breathed upon the gentle zephyr, the old hymn 
(Louvan) of his boyhood worship: 

“Lord of all being, throned afar, Thy glory flames from sun 
and star, 

*Centre and soul of every sphere, Yet to each loving heart 
how near!” — HoemES. 

* Said Dr. George B. Stewart substantially in a recent address: 
“Sovereignty is fundamental. God is on His throne (Almighty 
to command) ; He takes orders from nobody—not even from the 
President of the United States.” 



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The World War distinguished surpassingly a formerly pacifist 
churchman of Tennessee who as a sharpshooter picked off one 
by one some twenty five Huns and with his seven comrades made 
the capture of one hundred and thirty two prisoners in a single 
engagement of the Argonne Forest. The New York Sun reports 
that Sergeant Alvin C. York, now Colonel York, attributes all 
his individual prowess as a soldier to the grace of God, quoting 
his most quaint testimony that he felt stronger since he “came 
out of there;” his witness' is. “The American Army and the Amer¬ 
ican flag won the war because they had God behind them and 
when you have God behind you, you can come out on top every 
time.” 

A Christian Admiral of our navy is said to have indited upon 
the fly leaf of his Bible this personal prayer: 

“Master of All, whose sovereign good, I own; put any 
burden upon me, only sustain me; send me anywhere, 
only go with me; and should perilous conflict surround me, 
grant me one clasp of Thine All-conquering hand that 
whether living or dying, in duty, I may glorify Thy name. 

AMEN. 


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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE 
Who or What is GOD? 

{Condensed Views) 

“I have felt 

A presence that disturbs me with the joy 
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime 
Of something far more deeply interfused, 

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, 

And the round ocean and the living air, 

And the blue sky, and the mind of man: 

A motion and a spirit, that impels 

All thinking things, all objects of all thought, 

And rolls thru all things.” 

—Wordsworth —near Tintern 
Abbey. 

God is the “Eternal Not Ourselves.” He is Super- personality, 
—even Deity. As the mind of man resides above the body and 
its fleshly ills, so Deity is lodged in lofty infinitude above the 
world’s moral evils but reaches out everywhere thru His Uni¬ 
versal Spirit. By reverent analysis, God is:— 

1. A Deity universal, who acts thru the whole universe without 
limitation of time or space. 

2. A Being with strains of ultra-human character; supremely 
powerful, but self-limited; He knows by immediate beholding 
and exists an unending Now. 

3. The Great Companion spiritually in man’s struggles; co¬ 
operative, sustaining. 

4. The Self-sufficient Source of motion, light, radio and electrical 
energy, life, mind, etc. 

5. The Beginning and End of “the totality of things.” 


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As Spirit. 

God is the FATHER of Spirits but not the Parent of the 
physical being. The spark of Divine Spirit shines forth in the 
human spirit. However, His Spirit is different in degree if not 
in kind from the life spirit of animals or even man. His Presence 
cannot be confined nor measured. Is that impalpable something 
which permeates all things, all space—the seen and the unseen,— 
the essence (substantia) of God? Spiritually God is ever¬ 
present. Immanent Spirit is God’s present manifestation. 

As Deity. 

Deity is not static but dynamic and moves on thru spiritual 
enrichment—not an achievement but in process of realization. 
The universe flows into Deity. A tendency upwards urges all 
things towards completion unto PERFECTION in Deity which 
is on a plane above man. Perfection in Deity is beyond the 
human estimates of value (good and evil). God is higher than 
value; He is in line and on the side of goodness; He approximates 
(wholeness) holiness. Deity is unrivaled; as the soul of the 
universe, above strife, Deity is centered in the pure realms of a 
vast eternity. Good deeds, right actions of men converge towards 
the plane of perfection to amplify and build Deity. Evil dis¬ 
carded must be unmade to recompose for use. The residuum, 
the conservation and perhaps the augmentation of all value 
(humanly speaking) is appropriated unto the unfolding of the 
Deity of God. Thoughts of value, tend to permanence while 
evil ideas sink to nothingness—are impermanent. Deity is ever 
rising thru conquest of wrongs to more complete harmony. If 
mind is a complex of life in advanced stages, certainly Deity is 
a complex of mind on a higher level. In Deity, we behold God 
transcendent. 

As a conception. 

By deep self-study, man knows God; he develops a concept. 
Rational self-consciousness is the element of identity between 
humankind and a Being approaching perfection. Thru con¬ 
sciousness, we perceive what man is in possibility. The human 
spirit enlightened projects itself forward into the great unseen 
as a more perfect being than it actually is. This best conception 
is man’s God. Deity as an ideal shall never cease to enlarge 
sublimely “in this vast purposeful universe.” 

As Reality. 

The reality of God is well attested by intuitive and specific 
experience. God rules: He is the upholding energy at the 


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heart of all things. His life in Nature (knowing no favorites) 
never dies; yet nature is little more than a garment, handwrit¬ 
ing and language of God. The whole universe with its millions 
of star systems is encompassed in His immensity of life. In 
person, God is immanent. 

As to Form. 

A purely spiritual body may be inconceivable. The essence 
(hypostasis) of Deity is the spiritually sustaining ground of ail 
things. Is not this Spiritual essence (God’s formal person?) the 
moving carrier of electro-radio-magnetic-light effects? Does not 
the intangible fluid of Spirit fill space? Instead of the doubtful 
ether, should we not recognize that Divine substance, non-ma¬ 
terial energy,* interpenetrates and supports the “general substra¬ 
tum of things”? 

As Rewarder. 

God is man’s exceeding great reward. Thirsty mortals may 
drink at One River of Immortality—The Spiritual. We—finites 
partake of the Stream of One Consciousness—The Infinite. We 
share according to our capacity, One Mighty Life—The Eternal. 
The soul laying aside its vesture of decay fares onward to merge 
with the Conquering Christ in enhancing Deity; home to Him¬ 
self—to real life, the Father of Spirits is ever receiving His 
children. 

Either Jesus Christ is the Conquering Master or He and His 
witnesses were the rankest impostors that ever stood upon the 
earth. 

At Work. 

When by varied frequency of vibrations atoms emit colors, 
God is in His workshop. When glowing elements radiate their 
latent heat, God is at the forge. When the mad whirl of elec¬ 
trons discharge in lightning flash, God scans the heavens. When 
the germ cell stirs in protoplastic mass, fpervading Spirit awakens 


* (Translation by B. Miall of) Maeterlinck’s “Great Secret” p. 
219 ff. Century Co. 

t “Death and its Mystery” by Camille Flammarion, 3 vol’s. (Tr. 
from French). Spirit (untrammeled by flesh) can see without 
eyes, hear without ears, know without brain functions, travel 
about and act at a distance. Is there a language or any means of 
communication between the heaven plane and human spirits? 
Psychical and electrical vibrations account for much of the spirit 
phenomena. Century Coj 



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life. Beyond the known is the unknown. That something 
hidden from knowledge which maintains relativity in earth and 
sky, is just what we naturally expect—even Universal Spirit. 
Science sees some* “purely non-material energy in light’-vibra- 
tions pointing to Spiritual Power. There’s a majesty of God 
in the person of Christ continually revealed by the Spirit. 

“The only God I know is Jesus Christ.” 

—He;nry Ward BeRCheR. 

“God was in Christ etc.” 2 Cor. 5:19. 


* Prof. E. Cunningham, Cambridge, Eng., in “Relativity, the 
Electron Theory and Gravitation,” p. 89. 



GENERAL INDEX 

REFERENCES TO PAGES AND FOOTNOTES THEREON 


ABBOTT, LYMAN n. “faith” 9 
Abomination of desolation, 

73 and n. 


Absolute, The 
Admiral’s prayer, 
Aeons or ages, 
Albert I 


97 

101 

7 if- 74 , 85 
34, 65, 66 


Alford, Dean “this genera¬ 
tion” 73, 74 

Alsace-Lorraine 29, 50 

Amelioration, Ameliorist, X, 86 
American Army, A. E. F. 

XI, 50, 101 


Answers to prayer, 


X, 11, 16, 17, 18 
“Apex of the sun’s way” 81, n. 
Aquinas, Thomas “omnipo- 

j_ _ „ _ A A 


tence” 

44 

Archer, William “Mr. Wells’ 

God” 

ix 

Aseity of God, 

19 

Atheism, 

2, 3 , 97 

Atlantic Monthly, 

n, 17 

Atonement, 

47, 65, 67 

Attila the Hun, 

“modern 

scourge ?” 

25 

BACON, FRANCIS 

97 

Bagdad Railway, 

34 , 35 , 72 

Bahaism, Shoghi Effendi, Mt. 

Carmel, Haifa, Syria, 68, n. 

Balkan treaty, 1913 

34 

Beale, Lionel S. 

n. 9 

Beet, J. Agar 

89 

Belgian Atrocities, 

Newell D. 

Hillis, 

39 , 43 

Bernhardi, F. A| J. 

von “War 

schemes” 

33 

Bernstorff, Count 

A. Ger- 


many’s religion, 1893 25 

Bethmann-Hollweg, “Loyalty 
to the king,” 27 


Blake’s poem, “Think not 
that we can sigh,” etc. 11 

Boardman, George: “Down 
the dark future” etc. 69 

Bismarck, Otto von 28, 29, n 
Browning, Robert 2, 99 

Burk, W. Herbert, Valley 


Forge, Pa. n. 17 

Burns, Robert 59 

Burr’s infidelity, 61 

Bushnell, Horace lawless¬ 
ness, 43 


CALAIS, “Why not taken?” 43 
California soldier’s story, XI 

Campbell, R. J. “America’s 
war defiance,” n. 40 

Capital ship tonnage, n. 53 

Carmichael, W. D. “Theory 
of Relativity” n, 8 

Catherine II and Poland, 50, 51 
Cause, creative, first, under¬ 
lying, 2, 4, 5, 9 

Chappell, Henry “The Day” 39 


Charon, “ferryman of the 
shades” 94 

Charter of freedom, 54, 69 
Checks on the Marne, 

XI, n, XII, 42 
Chladni Plate 84 

Christianity, “the one abso¬ 
lute religion, J. H. Barrows 

19 and n. 

Christian Science, 68, 69 

Church, Mr. argues, 56, 59 

Clarke, W. N. “Christ’s re- * 
turn to earth” 89, 90 

“Coming of the Lord,” James 
H. Snowden, n. 82 

“Cosmic weather,” cosmos, 

1, 8, 22, 60, 63, 91, 97 


INDEX 


107 


Creative Spirit, XIII, 6, ioo 

Croesus, “When happy?” 94 
Crown Prince, Frederick 
Wilhelm, XII, 30, 31, 35 

Cunningham, Prof. E. “Rela¬ 
tivity, Electron Theory” 
etc. n. 105 

DAY, THE, “der Tag” 

27, 31 n., 36 n., 38, 39 

“Death of death,” death, 

9 T 93 , 95 

Deity, X, 5, 8, 20,23, 91,97,102,104 
Delivery of the kingdom, 95 
Democracy, 53, 69 

Departing cloud of glory, 76 
Devil or Satan, 10, 92 n., 93 
Did Christ teach a return to 
earth ? 89 and n., 90 

Diedrichs and Dewey at 
Manila, n. 35 

Dimension fourth, n. 8 

“Do wc need a new idea of 
God?" IX 

Dorner on transformation, 86 
Drang nach Osten, 34 

Du Bois-Reymond on limits, 98 


EINSTEIN, Albert, Relativity 

XIII n., 3, 7, 8, 22, 73 81 n. 
Electronic, electrons, 6, 8 n., 22 n. 
El Shaddai, 71 

Elohim, XIV, 20 

Ems Telegram, 29 


Energy. 4, 7, 9,13,16, 23,63,82,103 
End of things, 47, 82, 95 

Equal suffrage, 67 

Evolution, 4, 5 


FALLING asleep of the Al¬ 
mighty, 7 

Family of the heavens, 81 

Father worketh hitherto, 47 

Federal Council of the 
Churches, 69 

Ferdinand, Franz “assassina¬ 
tion” 36 and n. 

“Fire mist and a planet”, A 4L 

Final judgment, 91, 94 , 95 

First resurrection, 87, 91 

Flammarion, Camille 

8, 92 n.,104 n. 


Foch, Ferdinand XI, XII 

“For God has other word” 79 
Forsyth, P. T. 66, 67, n. 77 
Fraunhofer lines, 22 

Fulness of the Gentiles, 73, 76 
Fulness . of the Godhead, 
“pleroma” 88, 95 


GERMAN GENERAL STAFF 

XII, 33 

Germany’s degeneracy, 25, 26, 27 
Gilbert, George H 
“the comings of Christ” 89 
“God behind you” A. C. York 
in N. Y. Sun, 101 

“God of our fathers, Thou 
who wast” J. R. Lowell, 9 
God, His nature, 11, 12 

God, greatness and immensi¬ 
ty, . 4 , 5 , 97 

God, finite and infinite, 

5, 11, 46, 100 

God, partner in righteous¬ 
ness, not partisan, 47 48 

God, present, immanent, 
transcendent, 2, 5, 6, 99 

God, self-limited, 43, 44 n., 4511. 
God, world disorders, “physical 
disasters” 3 n., 63 

Goebel on Luke 18:8 n. 90 

Goethe on Prussianism, 27 

Gottberg, Otto von “war for 
youths” 30 

Grey, Sir Edward 38 

HARDING AND COOLIDGE 
Adminstration : world 
ideals, n. 52 

Harmony, 

VIII, 60, 61, 83-85, 89, 95, 99 
“Have Courage toilers” 

A. H. Cowles, 49 

Heads, “long” and “round”, 

W. S. Sadler, 25 

Helfferich, Dr. 37 

Hibbert’s Journal, IX and n. 
Hindu as to Christ, 70 

His appearing, “epiphany,” 93 
“Hoch der Kaiser”, Admiral 
Coghlan, n. 35 

Holmes, Oliver W. “Lord of 
all being” 100 


108 


INDEX 


Hughes, Charles E. n. 53 
Hume, David 1 and n., 99 

“I TRUST IN GOD” ETC. 

Browning, 99 

Incarnation-calvary sojourn, 

. 74 , 76 

Inquiring Philip, 76 

“Instrument of the Almighty” 

n. 32 

Interimsethik, an 89 and n. 
Irish Free State, 52 


JEANNE D’ARC, XII and n. 
Jehovah, XIV, 75L 

Jerusalem, 72, 73 

Jewish race, Jew, 71, 72, 73 
Joseph, Francis, the late 34 
Junkers, war lords, 

29, 3 U 35 , 37 , 48 

KAISER AT BREMEN, 30 
Kaiser on “defensive war” 37 
Kaiser at the palace window, 
“forced sword” 38 

Kant, Immanuel 1 n., 27, 55 
Kelvin, Lord 2 

Kenosis, Jesus under the 


Spirit’s control, 
Kepler, Johann 
“King Eternal” etc. 
Kluck, General von 
Kultur, 


n. and 77 
3 
5 f 
XII 

XIII, 26, 33 


LASTING PEACE, 54, 55 , 58 
“Latter days”, “Little time” 


69, 72, 87 

Laws to be known, 68 

Lessing, Gotthold E. 27 

Lichnowsky, Prince 36 and n. 38 
Lies at the heart, 38 

Light as to God, 

22 and n., 23 n., 98 
Lodge, Sir Oliver 2, 46, 47 
Luther, Martin XIII, 27 


MACDONALD, GEORGE n. 10 
Maeterlinck, Maurice n. 104 
Man and moral evils, 

3, 40, 41, 42-45 n. 
Master key of prophecy, 72, 75 
Memorial Chapel and Church¬ 
yard, 17 

Mercury’s oval orbit, 81 n. 


Messiah, Messiahship, 

76 and n., 77 


Militancy, militarism, 41, 53 

Mill, John Stuart 43 

Milton, John 14, 96 

Morganthau, Henry 36, 72 n. 
Motion and rotation, n, 81 


NAPLES, 24 n., 30 

Neo-realism, XIII, n. 68 

“Nettles” # 32, 33 

New Astronomy, David 
Todd, n. 81 

New Universe, new heavens, 

82, 84, 94 

Nietzsche Frederich W. 33, 34 
Not a Serb but a Bosniak 
youth. 3^ 

Nurture, 26, 34, 38, 52 


“OLD FRITZ”, FREDERICK 
the Great, 30, 50, 7 1 

“On the far reefs” 16 

Only sure sign of the end, 88 
Ouspensky’s Tertium Organ- 
um, n. 55 

Overman, Uebermensch, 

26, 28, 34 

Overstreet, Harry A. n. 55 


PACEMAKER OR PEACE¬ 
MAKER, 27 

Pan German, 30, 34, 35 

Parables, Matt. 13 85!. 

Peace by governments’ a- 
greement, 52 and n. 

Pentecost, 78 and n., 79 

“Perpetually born” Son, 21 
Plot of the war, 34-36 

Plummer, Alfred 85 

Pluralism, XIII, 45 n., 46, 97 
Poland, Poles, 49, 50, 51 

Pringle-Pattison, A. Seth n. 6. 
Proctor, R. A, 99 

Propaganda, 1, 37, 54, 55, 58, 67 
Protevangelism, 74 

Providence, X, 17, 43 

QUANTUM THEORY 
by Max Planck, n. 7, 22, 23 
Queen Elizabeth of the 
Belgians, 66 


INDEX 


Quelle or original source, 57 

RADIUM, 1, 98 

“Realm of Ends,” James 
Ward, 45 n., 72 

Red Cross 67 

Republic of Righteousness, 

54, 55, 56, 59, 68 
Residuum of good, 69, 86, 103 
Revelation: Chap. 20, ex¬ 
planatory notes, 87 

Riggs, James S. n. 87, 94 

Roosevelt, the late Theodore 26 
Rougier, Louis n. 63 


SADOWA AND SEDAN, 29 


Salvation Army and Volun¬ 
teers, 67 

Schiller, Johann von 17, 27 

Schofield, Alfred T. n. 78 
Scientific Theism, Arvin 
Reuterdahl, 98 

Shekinah, 74, 75, 76 

Shrines, 77, 78 

Sky Top view of six states, XV 
Society of Nations, League, 52 

Solar System, 80-81 

“Sooner shall these moun¬ 
tains'’ etc. 70 

Sovereignty, George B. 

Stewart, n. 100 

Special agencies, 67 


St. Paul Cathedral, London 100 
St. Paul’s end, 1 Cor. 15:24f. 

95, 96 and n. 
Strasbourg statue, Paris, 50 
Strong, W. W. n. 97 

“Sum up all things” 85, 88 

“TEARS OF RHEIMS” 
Everybody’s Magazine, XII 
Tennyson, Alfred 44 n., 47, 69 

Testament, Last will and 21 
Teutonia, Teutonic, Teutons, 

26, 29, 34, 41, 49 

“Till the war-drum throbb’d 
no longer,” etc. 69 

“Then long Eternity” etc. 96 


109 


Three Jewish religions, 71 

“Thru all the long dark night” 
etc. G. Massey, 51 

“To Father, Son and Spirit” 
etc. 23 

“To the wastes of the track¬ 
less sky” etc. 100 

Traitor Benedict Arnold, 61 

Transformation, 6, 86, 91, 100 

Treitschke, H. von 32 

Trinity, triunity 19-23, 98 

UNIVERSAL SPIRIT, 

23 and n., 102, 105 
Universe, seen and unseen, 

L 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 16, 45, 47, 
79, 80, 90, 95, 103 

VERSAILLES, 

At frontispiece, 29, 50, n. 
Vision of the Lord’s glory 
departing, 76 

Vorwaerts, 37 


WAFT OF THE SPIRIT, 

XII, 11, 18, 43, 44 
Wangenheim, late Ambas¬ 
sador 36 

“We may not stay’ etc. 66 

Wells, H. G. IX, n. 76 

Werewolf, 27, 28, 34, 35 

Wilhelm I, 28 

Williams, Charles R. n. 94 

Wilson, Woodrow n. 48 

Wiser, Mr. argues 56-59 

Wordsworth’s: “I have felt 
a presence” etc. 102 

Wrongs not decreed, n. 45 

YOUNG MEN’S AND YOUNG 
Women’s also Children’s 

Clubs, 67 

Young, Charles A., Astro¬ 
nomies cited, 82 and n. 


ZABERN INCIDENT, , 50 

Zarathustra, 33 

Zechariah, 74 

Zedkiah 76 

Zionist movement, 72 and n. 































































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